Comments on: Auto copy to clipboard

By: cfruss

cfruss — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:31:00 +0000

I’ve posted a blog regarding the issue and a solution: http://cfruss.blogspot.com/2009/01/copy-to-clipboard-swf-button-cross.html

There are new security constraints in Flash 10 that require the clipboard to be manipulated only as a response to user action.

By: emattias

emattias — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:12:26 +0000

Videos.wordpress.com seam to have a working solution. When I try it in FF and IE it works, even without a confirmation..

toggle the embed box in a video and click the “copy to clipboard” on this page: http://matt.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/videos-from-upgrade-party/

By: pkhunter

pkhunter — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:54:22 +0000

Yes but all this is now broken with Flash 10. Google spits out a solution here – http://groups.google.com/group/Snipurl/web/copy-to-clipboard-not-working – but this is not exactly what I want. Is there a proper solution to this or has Adobe broken this functionality big time? Thanks for any inputs.

By: Whatevaa

Whatevaa — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:47:20 +0000

@Shawn
I had the same problem. Chars like ÃƒÂ¡ ÃƒÂ© ÃƒÂ ÃƒÂº ÃƒÂ½ ÃƒÂ¾ ÃƒÂ¦ ÃƒÂ¶ will also be a problem. I found a working solution at http://www.webutils.pl. It seem like replacing escape with encodeURIComponent fixes the problem.

By: David

David — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:00:16 +0000

Your post have make me something a idea.Thank a lot.

By: rdivilbiss

rdivilbiss — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:50:11 +0000

@Geoff,

“Hmm, he should use SWFObject to embed the swf, then he could detect the plugin and display a notice if the user doesnâ€™t have flash.”

http://www.rodsdot.com/ee/cross_browser_clipboard_copy_with_pop_over_message.asp

combines the two as you suggest.

Regards,
Rod

By: Jonathan Aquino

Jonathan Aquino — Sat, 26 May 2007 18:42:33 +0000

BodyLoaded must be some global variable specified to urlTea. Just remove it and the function will work in IE.

By: tl

tl — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:47:11 +0000

Has anyone had any problems with getting the + sign to copy with this function?

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:16:52 +0000

Internet Exploder says BodyLoaded is undefined – on any page I try to use this on and on the urltea site as well.

By: Zefiro

Zefiro — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:18:47 +0000

Works for me in Firefox 1.5. You need to
a) copy the mentioned http://urltea.com/_clipboard.swf to your local webspace
b) create a form input element (whose value will be copied to the clipboard) and pass this element to the function – neither the element id nor the value itself.

But it can easily be modified that you can directly pass the value.

By: Ryan Wilke

Ryan Wilke — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:30:27 +0000

Photobucket has been using the same concept for a couple months now. I ran into a brick wall when I tried using Javascript to access the clipboard. It’s a pretty nice little trick but it instantly made me wonder how much longer we’ll be able to continue using it. FYI it should work in nearly every browser (at least it does on Photobucket).

By: printer ink guy

printer ink guy — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:34:28 +0000

does anyone else have problems getting this script to work in firefox? It works fine in IE.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:06:20 +0000

Hmm, he should use SWFObject to embed the swf, then he could detect the plugin and display a notice if the user doesn't have flash.

By: jdalton

jdalton — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:33:17 +0000

Blog Post URL: http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/clipboard-copy/