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Copy and paste keys disabled in latest build? (OSX)

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December 18, 2009
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Previously Ctrl+c, and Ctrl+v allowed me to copy and paste editable TLF text in AIR 1.5.3 on OSX. Since updating to the SWCs in the Flex 4 beta 2 build (502 -715519), this no longer works on OSX, but continues to work OK on Windows.

I know it shouldn't really be Ctrl anyway (instead Cmd) but users could at least use keys to perform these operations. Now it seems to replace the selected text with the letter pressed (c, v, x), ignoring the event.controlKey attribute?

I don't see anything in the EditManager or SelectionManager relating to handling copy and paste, is this something the built in to the text engine now? The only mentions I see to copy and paste are to do with the context menu (forgive me if I've just missed something).

I've tried to confirm I'm not doing anything funky in my code (disabled all related event handling and so on) but I'd be interested to hear whether anyone knows any more about this regarding Mac support to see whether it's a genuine issue?

Also quick sidenote, I saw an interesting note in the source:

// CTRL/CMD+z: Only on Mac when using a pre-Argo player version

I've not found anything online about this codename, perhaps player 10, 10.1? Does this mean future Flash Players will disable Cmd+Z?

Thanks as always for your help with this.

Richard

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Hmm. I'm using the 3.4 SDK, and the textLayout.swc from the 4.0 SDK installed with Flash Builder beta 2 (4.0.0.10485). I'm running with adl from the AIR 1.5.3 SDK. What I'm running is this app, and the keys are working for me.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"

layout="absolute"

creationComplete = "onCC()">

<mx:Script>

<![CDATA[

import flashx.textLayout.container.ContainerController;

import flashx.textLayout.edit.EditManager;

import flashx.textLayout.elements.ParagraphElement;

import flashx.textLayout.elements.SpanElement;

import flashx.textLayout.elements.TextFlow;

public function onCC():void

{

var textFlow:TextFlow = new TextFlow();

var p:ParagraphElement = new ParagraphElement();

var span:SpanElement = new SpanElement();

span.text = "Hello, World";

span.fontSize = 48;

p.addChild(span);

textFlow.addChild(p);

var container:Sprite = new Sprite();

textFlow.flowComposer.addController(new ContainerController(container));

textFlow.interactionManager = new EditManager();

canvas.rawChildren.addChild(container);

textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers();

}

]]>

</mx:Script>

<mx:Canvas id="canvas" height="400" width="200"/>

</mx:WindowedApplication>

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Anonymous

Have you tried using command-c and command-v? Those keys work for me in AIR 1.5 and 2.0. I do see the 'c' and 'v' text entry for the control keys in 1.5 (that appears fixed in 2.0 - those keys do nothing there).

R

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