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You may well have appeared at my humble blog hunting for a method of copying data to the clipboard directly from Flash as I have had one of these posted for a while. The method I wrote uses Actionscript to call a JavaScript that writes the content you wish to copy into an HTML text input field in a hidden div via the DOM model and then uses JavaScript to copy it to the System clip. I have been using this method on production sites for ~6 months and it works great but as it turns is totally unnecessary The following barely documented function could have saved me (and you) the whole run around…

[code lang="actionscript"]

this.createTextField("in_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 160, 120);
in_txt.text = "lorum ipsum...";
System.setClipboard(in_txt.text);

[/code]

I guess sometimes as a Developer you just have to accept that you did things in the wrong way (although in my defence it works) but rather than hush it up I figured this is a lesson learned that I may as well share

Who knows, someone may find my massively over the top JS Dom Model access version useful for something one day in circumstances where JS can do something Flash can’t?…