copy and paste text from a field in a LC mobile app? - Solved

[DR White]

How can I copy and paste text from a field in a LC mobile app to another app on my phone, like a text editor or google search engine?

Thanks,

David

[Klaus]

Hi David,

native controls support this out of the box, I think.
For Android just use the "Android Native Field" widget and on iOS use:

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mobilecontrolcreate "input", "jeeehaw"

The latter wll also work on Android.

Best

Klaus

[DR White]

Klauss,

I will be trying that in a couple of days. I need to renew my Apple profile to be able to test app on phone.

Thanks

David

[Klaus]

Sorry, forgot an important information: Your USER has to copy the text manually!
There is no way currently to do this by script.

[DR White]

Klauss,

I got my app running on my Android tablet and works great, but I cannot copy the text from fld "myFirstInputField" using code:

put "input" into tControlType
mobileControlCreate tControlType, "myFirstInputField"

But that is OK the Android Widget works great!

Thanks,

David

[DR White]

Klauss,

Works great, except for one thing.

I cannot put put text from a variable into the widget.
I tried :
put Test_4 into text of widget "Android Native Field_1" - Did Not work
put Test_4 into widget "Android Native Field_1" - Did Not work

I am not familiar with using widgets.

I went to the dictionary, but did not find much info there.

What is the proper format?

Thanks,

David

[Klaus]

"the text..." is a property not a container, so this will do:

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set the text of widget "Android Native Field_1" to Test_4

[DR White]

That works beautifully!!

I thought about trying that, but some reason I convinced myself it would not work.

Thank you so much!!

David