Copy Text to Clipboard from TextView via Button?

[kaje]

Is there any way to copy text from a TextView that has User Interaction disabled to the clipboard via a UIButton?

[varchar]

Originally Posted by kaje

Is there any way to copy text from a TextView that has User Interaction disabled to the clipboard via a UIButton?

What's the problem in just doing this in your IBOutlet for action?

	if ([pasteboard containsPasteboardTypes: [NSArray arrayWithObject:@"public.utf8-plain-text"]])
		NSLog(@"WE gots a string which is: %@", pasteboard.string);

[kaje]

Originally Posted by varchar

What's the problem in just doing this in your IBOutlet for action?

	if ([pasteboard containsPasteboardTypes: [NSArray arrayWithObject:@"public.utf8-plain-text"]])
		NSLog(@"WE gots a string which is: %@", pasteboard.string);

That looks to be what I need but I'm having some issues with getting a value into the pasteboard.

- (IBAction)btnCopyClicked:(id)sender { 
	
	pasteboard.string = @"Test";
	if ([pasteboard containsPasteboardTypes: [NSArray arrayWithObject:@"public.utf8-plain-text"]]) {
		NSLog(@"WE gots a string which is: %@", pasteboard.string);
	}
}

doesn't do anything and:

- (IBAction)btnCopyClicked:(id)sender { 
	
	pasteboard.string = @"Test";
	NSLog(@"Pasteboard: %@", pasteboard.string);
}

returns null.

[varchar]

Code seems correct.

Make sure that you have the following in the property of interface

UIPasteboard *pastboard;

and the following in your init (or viewdidload) method

	pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];

The above is important to initialize the pastboard.

Also, you must keep in mind that the pastboard will only get populated (based on what I know) ONLY from the copy, cut actions call out by the "OS". NOT by your function... So the process is:

• user selects text
• OS shows the call out (cut, copy)
• user does a copy/cut
• OS puts the text into the pasteboard stack (i.e. UIPastboard generalPastboard)
• Then you can grab it from the general pastboard via pastboard.string

[kaje]

Originally Posted by varchar

Code seems correct.

Make sure that you have the following in the property of interface

	pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];

The above is important to initialize the pastboard.

That did the trick. In the early stages of troubleshooting the pasteboard, I took that out and forgot to put it back in. Doh! Thanks a lot!

[loobian]

Hi!

Is there any way to use the UIPasteboard class and check for the device version so it works only in 3.0 and above?
I already did the check and stuff, the problem is that it won't compile for 2.2.1.

Any ideas what to do?

Cheers,
ILIYA