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Support copy/paste in macOS shell text input #30709
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We need to support clipboard.getData and clipboard.setData, as well as shortcut keys for copy and paste.
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We need to support clipboard.getData and clipboard.setData, as well as shortcut keys for copy and paste.
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stuartmorgan-g commentedon Jun 11, 2019
Shortcut keys will need to wait for Action support, but wiring up the clipboard.* channels should be straightforward.
alexelisenko commentedon Jun 26, 2019
@stuartmorgan I see that there was something merged to master for MacOS, but I wanted to confirm if this is now working? If not, any ETA on this would be greatly appreciated.
franciscojma86 commentedon Jun 26, 2019
This change was merged into the framework in this commit.
You can now copy and paste strings into/from the system clipboard, but there are no keyboard shortcuts for it yet.
alexelisenko commentedon Jun 26, 2019
@franciscojma86 This is probably out of scope of this issue, but, how would one access the system clipboard without the keyboard shortcuts?
stuartmorgan-g commentedon Jun 29, 2019
https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/services/Clipboard-class.html
BrunoEleodoro commentedon Sep 11, 2019
@stuartmorgan I'd like to contribute to that issue, can someone show me the path that I have to take to start contributing and try to solve that issue.
Thanks.
stuartmorgan-g commentedon Sep 11, 2019
We need a way to coordinate between the Edit menu and the current focus state in Flutter, so that the enable state of Cut/Copy/Paste in the Edit menu is correct, and sends the message to Flutter. @gspencergoog has given this some thought already, so may be able to provide more detail on how to approach this.
BrunoEleodoro commentedon Sep 12, 2019
@gspencergoog Hi Greg! can you help me with some tutorial or how I can help you on that.
Thanks.
technolion commentedon Oct 21, 2019
As I see it, this issue is one of the few remaining show-stoppers that keeps developers to release flutter-based macOS applications (based on master channel), since you all did such a great job to advance macOS support.
Is there any chance copy/paste support gets implemented soon?
gspencergoog commentedon Oct 21, 2019
I actually haven't started looking at the menu support yet, but it's on my radar. We should have the cmd-x/cmd-c/cmd-v support working fairly soon. There is an issue with detecting modifier keys in the keyboard handling: #38076 Once that gets fixed, it should be simple to add support for keyboard copy/paste in text fields, and the menu support will follow. cc/ @franciscojma86
technolion commentedon Oct 21, 2019
Great, thank you!
gspencergoog commentedon Dec 4, 2019
I'm going to close this, as I believe that the only remaining work here is to coordinate it with the menu bar, and that would be covered by #23600.
technolion commentedon Dec 5, 2019
There still seem to be problems with cmd-x/cmd-c/cmd-v/cmd-a support, which stops working after switching between flutter app and other apps. Please see #46151
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