clipboarddata object not supported

[RedDeupree]

I found an old thread that ended with someone saying that the clipboarddata object was not supported in iOS. (or Android)
Is that still true? Is there another way? It seems to work in for OSX to set and retrieve the clipboarddata, text or rtf, but in iOS, it dies when touching the object
...
put the text of field ID 1024 into tText
set the clipboarddata["text"] to tText
...
works in OSX, dies in iOS. It appears to raise a silent error in iOS as no statement after the "set ..." executes

[Klaus]

Hi Red,

that's not not supported on iOS and Android!
You can check this in the dictionary, there are the supported platforms listed for a dictionary entry.


Best

Klaus

[RedDeupree]

I was checking to see if there was a workaround or an upgrade by now. the post I saw that said it was not supported was from 2012 - that's a long time ago.
What do Apple iOS products do? Is there another object that can get to whatever my iPad sees when I do copy and paste? Copy/Paste was one of the great inventions from the earliest versions of Windows and Apple OS long before OSX. Even MS DOS could recycle command prompts.

[strongbow]

Use native fields - then you get all the native (ios) tools like cut/paste/autocorrect etc etc.

Check out creating an input control and a multiline control using

mobileControlCreate

etc. Or just search for "mobileControl" in the Dictionary.

cheers

Alan

[RedDeupree]

I have submitted a feature request for a "mobile text field" in the Objects/New Control fly out menu to allow these to be drawn on cards like other controls at the very least, and to be able to get and set the common properties using the prose form of the language.

This is a bigger issue -
but yes, using mobileControlCreate and mobileControlGet/Set did solve the problem and allow me to create a mobile app with a textbox that supported copy/paste.

Thanks..