System.setclipboard() - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference

System.setClipboard()

Availability
SWF files published for Flash Player 6 or later, playing in Flash Player 7 or later.
Usage
System.setClipboard(string:String) : Boolean
Parameters
A plain-text string of characters to place on the system Clipboard, replacing its current
string
contents (if any).
Returns
A Boolean value:
Description
Method; replaces the contents of the Clipboard with a specified text string.
Example
The following example places the phrase
System.setClipboard("Hello world");
The following example creates two text fields at runtime, called
select text in the
Then you can paste the text into the
this.createTextField("in_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 160, 120);
in_txt.multiline = true;
in_txt.border = true;
in_txt.text = "lorum ipsum...";
this.createTextField("out_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 140, 160,
120);
out_txt.multiline = true;
out_txt.border = true;
out_txt.type = "input";
copy_btn.onRelease = function() {
System.setClipboard(in_txt.text);
Selection.setFocus("out_txt");
};
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if the text is successfully placed on the Clipboard;
true
field, you can click the
in_txt
out_txt
onto the system Clipboard:
"Hello World"
to copy the data to the Clipboard.
copy_btn
field.
otherwise.
false
and . When you
in_txt out_txt