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AIR API - Clipboard Explorer Application

David Tucker
February 9, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Update: The Clipboard Explorer has been updated to work properly with AIR 1.0

In the first two articles (listed below) we examined both the basic and advanced usage of the clipboard functionality within Adobe AIR. Before you begin working with the Clipboard Explorer application, you will probably want to have read these articles.

This screencast will demonstrate how to use the Clipboard Explorer AIR application. As with all of the samples I will post here - 'View Source' is enabled and can be used by simply right clicking on the chrome of the application and selecting 'View Source' (once you have installed the application).

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Clipboard Explorer Application

The following badge will allow you to install the Clipboard Explorer application on your local machine. It will also install Adobe AIR (if you don't already have it installed).

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I want to thank Daniel and the Adobe XD team for permission to use some of their visual elements in this application. You read more about their technique here.

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Jeff said:

I have a question regarding the AIR clipboard API. I need to copy a chart from excel in an AIR application, and although i can paste this chart as a bitmap into photoshop or word i am having no luck extracting this bitmap from the copied chart. It seems excel is placing on the clipboard an object with more complex data than just a bitmap. Is there any way i can access clipboard data from external applications that are more complex than simple text or bitmap objects?

September 30, 2008 11:48 PM

pierre said:

Hello,

I'm a beginner and i'm looking for an example to drag and drop an xls fiel( not csv) into an air application.

Can you help me? i don't found any solution on the web.

thank

October 23, 2008 1:12 AM

Matt Mullally said:

Thanks a ton - very useful.

January 31, 2009 4:56 PM

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