Known Issue: "Copy to clipboard NOT working!"

[Snipurl Editor]

Some users who have upgraded to Flash 10 may experience that their
snipurls are not being copied anymore.

This is a known issue. Flash 10 has a new security environment that
breaks a lot of Javascript integration. Which is a pain of the highest
order, but pundits claim it is for the best:
http://ajaxian.com/archives/flash-10-and-the-bad-news-for-javascript-interaction

Regardless of all the alleged security benefits, this is a step back
for Adobe with this proprietary "standard". The comments on the above
link seem to suggest that we are not alone in our belief.

Our suggestion: please consider downgrading to Flash 9 if you can:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html#fp9

We'll continue to seek workarounds to this issue, although given that
Flash 10 is already released with this anal-retentive functionality,
we might take some time. Thank you for your patience!

Watch this FAQ entry for our resolution updates:
http://groups.google.com/group/Snipurl/web/copy-to-clipboard-not-working

[D_C]

just wanted to let people know that the about:config did work. i am
not sure if i forgot to restart firefox or what but it does work.
thanks again for the FIX! keep up the great work!

[Ellie]

Yes - This Worked! Thank You!!

[jhuckaby]

Hey guys, here is a free JavaScript / Flash library that provides copy-
to-clipboard functionality in Flash Player 10:

http://code.google.com/p/zeroclipboard/

Enjoy!

[Snipurl Editor]

This is super, Jhuckaby. Great code.

Does this circumvent the Flash requirement that a manual click is
required *inside* a Flash movie? If so, that'll be excellent and I'll
try to get this adapted to SnipURL.

Thanks for the heads up!

Happy snipping,
Shashank
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[Joseph Huckaby]

Hey Shashank,

Yes, it circumvents the Flash requirement by floating an invisible SWF movie on top of your copy-to-clipboard button, or any DOM element of your choice.  So the user actually *is* clicking on a Flash movie which initiates the clipboard operation.  So this works in both Flash Player 9 and 10.

I look forward to seeing this in SnipURL!

- Joe

[jukka456]

I have flas 9 and opera 9.6
The snipurl doesn't copy anything
but old flas based copy-to-clipboard works?
how can that be?

[SnipURL Editor]

I am guessing you are on Mac OSX. Or, some of this behavior is also
caused by the latest Flash update for Flash 9.

Please follow the instructions for Firefox and Flash 10 --
http://snipr.com/flash10 and you should be fine.

Let me know.

Happy snipping,
Shashank
SnipURL Editor

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