ACTIONSCRIPT 3 Developer’s Guide en

Chapter 33: Copy and paste
Flash Player 10 and later, Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
Use the classes in the clipboard API to copy information to and from the system clipboard. The data formats that can
be transferred into or out of an application running in Adobe® Flash® Player or Adobe® AIR® include:
Text
HTML-formatted text
Rich Text Format data
Serialized objects
Object references (valid only within the originating application)
Bitmaps (AIR only)
Files (AIR only)
URL strings (AIR only)
Basics of copy-and-paste
Flash Player 10 and later, Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
The copy-and-paste API contains the following classes.
Package Classes
flash.desktop Clipboard
ClipboardFormats
ClipboardTransferMode
The static Clipboard.generalClipboard property represents the operating system clipboard. The Clipboard class
provides methods for reading and writing data to clipboard objects.
The HTMLLoader class (in AIR) and the TextField class implement default behavior for the normal copy and paste
keyboard shortcuts. To implement copy and paste shortcut behavior for custom components, you can listen for these
keystrokes directly. You can also use native menu commands along with key equivalents to respond to the keystrokes
indirectly.
Different representations of the same information can be made available in a single Clipboard object to increase the
ability of other applications to understand and use the data. For example, an image might be included as image data,
a serialized Bitmap object, and as a file. Rendering of the data in a format can be deferred so that the format is not
actually created until the data in that format is read.
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