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I'm stuck here. I know how to copy and paste on the iPhone side of things but how can I copy contents from a textField to the global clipboard in OSX. I've been searching the web but there are really no examples. So let me explain in detail what I'm trying to accomplish. I have a NSTextField named helloField and I want to be able to copy the contents of this helloField to the global pasteboard by pressing a button. How can this be done and is there certain libraries I need? Thanks.
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To quickly reuse text, copy it in one location and paste it to another. Select the text to copy. Choose Edit > Copy (from the Edit menu at the top of your screen), or press Command-C. Note: If you want to remove the text from its original location, choose Edit > Cut instead.
Command-C Copy the selected item to the Clipboard. This also works for files in the Finder. Command-V Paste the contents of the Clipboard into the current document or app. This also works for files in the Finder.
On iOS
[UIPasteboard generalPasteboard].string = helloField.text;
On OSX
[[NSPasteboard generalPasteboard] clearContents];
[[NSPasteboard generalPasteboard] setString:helloField.stringValue forType:NSStringPboardType];
On macOS and Swift 3.x
let pasteBoard = NSPasteboard.general()
pasteBoard.clearContents()
pasteBoard.writeObjects([text as NSString])
For Swift 5
let pasteboard = NSPasteboard.general
pasteboard.clearContents()
pasteboard.setString("string to copy", forType: .string)
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