Basic iPhone pasteboard usage
cocoa-touch, copy-paste, ios, uipasteboard
Solution
Responding to the comments and my own question:
- Setting the `pasteboard` string property works.
- Using `setValue:forPasteboardType:` also works if I use `kUTTypeUTF8PlainText` instead of `kUTTypePlainText` for the pasteboard type.
I had not noticed the string property because I went directly to the "Getting and Setting Single Pasteboard Items" tasks section.
The way I was testing was by clicking in a text field and see if the paste pop-up would appear.
I still am not sure where in the docs the UTT types are explained for the iPhone, including where to get them (Framework, `#include` files), it seems that the "Uniform Type Identifiers Overview" doc is still geared toward Mac OS. Since the constants gave me a type mismatch warning I thought I was doing something wrong, that's why I first tried using an `NSString` literal.
Problem
I'm trying to put some plain text in the iPhone Pasteboard. The following code doesn't seem to work: ``` UIPasteboard *pboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard]; NSString *value = @"test"; [pboard setValue: value forPasteboardType: @"public.plain-text"]; ``` I'm guessing the problem is in the PasteBoard type argument. Passing `@"public.plain-text"` nothing happens. Passing `kUTTypePlainText` the compiler complains about incompatible pointer type, but doesn't crash, and nothing happens either. Using `kUTTypePlainText` also seems to require linking with `MobileCoreServices`, which is not mentioned in the docs.