Free Friday - Flash - System.setClipboard by Peter Elst
This is a jewel of a method but many seem to miss it. System.setClipboard allows you to add a string onto the system clipboard from ActionScript. Seamless system integration via the clipboard. You can't beat that!
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This example is available with full source and documentation within Flex® by Example.
More to come.
Ted :)
2 Comments:
just out of curiosity, what would be a good example of where this could be used?
Actually a great one is pasting into Excel from component dataProviders.
1. Provide a copy button adjacent to a grid control.
2. On 'click' format the dataProvider and write it to the clipboard using setClipboard.
3. Paste into Excel, rendering formatted data into cells.
We will put together a few more examples highlighting usage.
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