iOS Copy Text to Clipboard from TextView via Button?

[kwjohns]

Is there any way to copy text from a TextView that has User Interaction disabled to the clipboard via a UIButton?

 

[robbieduncan]

Yep, should be easy. Get the text from the view. Then use the methods in UIPasteboard. In particular the generalPasteboard class method and setValue:forPasteboardType: methods. Did you even open the documentation before asking this?

 

[kwjohns]

Yep, should be easy. Get the text from the view. Then use the methods in UIPasteboard. In particular the generalPasteboard class method and setValue:forPasteboardType: methods. Did you even open the documentation before asking this?

Sorry, some of us are amateurs and aren't familiar with every framework and class or know what terms to search for such as "pasteboard."

 

[robbieduncan]

In neither method are you setting pasteboard to anything. Where do you set it to a valid instance of UIPasteboard? Are you sure it's set?

Have you tried:

- (IBAction)btnCopyClicked:(id)sender { 
	UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
	[pasteboard setValue: @"Test" forPasteboardType: @"public.utf8-plain-text"];
	NSLog(@"Pasteboard: %@", pasteboard.string);
}

 

[kwjohns]

In neither method are you setting pasteboard to anything. Where do you set it to a valid instance of UIPasteboard? Are you sure it's set?

Have you tried:

- (IBAction)btnCopyClicked:(id)sender { 
	UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
	[pasteboard setValue: @"Test" forPasteboardType: @"public.utf8-plain-text"];
	NSLog(@"Pasteboard: %@", pasteboard.string);
}

I was missing the pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard]; which I had removed last night when troubleshooting it and forgot to add it back in. All is working now. Thanks.