User Guide

System 1159
setClipboard (System.setClipboard method)
public static setClipboard(text:String) : Void
Replaces the contents of the Clipboard with a specified text string.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 7 - SWF files published for Flash Player 6 or later,
playing in Flash Player 7 or later.
Parameters
text:String - A plain-text string of characters to place on the system Clipboard, replacing its
current contents (if any).
Example
The following example places the phrase
"Hello World" onto the system Clipboard:
System.setClipboard("Hello world");
The following example creates two text fields at runtime, called in_txt and out_txt. When
you select text in the
in_txt field, you can click the copy_btn to copy the data to the
Clipboard. Then you can paste the text into the
out_txt field.
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");
};
If your SWF file includes a version 2 component, use the version 2 components
DepthManager class instead of the
MovieClip.getNextHighestDepth() method, which is
used in this example.
NOTE
Because of security concerns, it is not possible to read the contents of the system
Clipboard. In other words, there is no corresponding
System.getClipboard() method.