Corban Baxter wrote:
Hey guys a client is wanting me to create a combobox that has a button
below
it that can copy text to the clipboard. Can flash access the clipboard?
Other folks already presented info on setting the clipboard contents.
(I'm assuming that "flash" here means Adobe Flash Player, rather than
the visual authoring environment.)
Why can we write but not read the clipboard? Mainly for security... it's
conceivable that someone could have credit-card numbers or other
sensitive info on their clipboard, and so clipboard contents cannot
silently be sent back to advertisers' servers.
There's a conceivable risk of "clipboard spamming", where someone could
put their advertising message on your clipboard, but fortunately we
haven't seen anyone desperate enough to pollute computers this way.
That's for in-browser use. In desktop use, through the beta Adobe
Integrated Runtime, we're clearly working at a higher permission level
(compared to just visiting the world's websites in a document browser),
and so there's full clipboard support, drag'n'drop with desktop
applications, and other standard application communication mechanisms.
jd
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