How do we access the clipboard on mobile devices?

[jonathandlynch at gmail.com]

Today, Thierry allowed me to put the external from his text to speech app into Augmented Earth. I was able to put in a paste button above the content field and paste text into the app on my iPhone. It worked quite well.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 28, 2017, at 10:20 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Thierry Douez wrote:
> 
> > J. Landman Gay
> > :
> > 
> >
> > They can paste text normally if you use a native field. The only
> >> restriction is that LC can't manage the clipboard through script
> >> alone. But if you create a mobile field the OS handles it as
> >> expected.
> >>
> >> In other words, copy and paste is currently limited to manual user
> >> actions.
> >>
> >>>> It would be very nice to be able to get and set the
> >>>> rawClipboardData on mobile but that is only possible on the
> >>>> desktop.
> >>>>
> >
> > On my latest release of sunnYtext2speech, I did add an experimental
> > copy and paste commands.
> >
> > Contact me off-list if any interest.
> 
> Is there anything that might interest the readers here?  What were these experiments?  Were you able to programmatically alter the mobile OS keyboard?
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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