Copy and paste in egui

[itsNiccoloSabatini]

hi everyone, can someone help me?
I'm trying to copy and paste a text from my page using ctrl+c and ctrl+v and it doesn't do anything, i also tried the button method that someone else already discussed about. Can someone tell me how it works??

thanks

[itsNiccoloSabatini]

           `if ui.button("📋").clicked() {
                ui.output_mut(|o| {
                    warn!("Copying API key to clipboard: {:?}", key);
                    o.copied_text = key.clone();
                    warn!("Copied API key to clipboard: {:?}", o.copied_text);
                });
            }`

i'm using this code to try copy, the o.copied_text is populated but there's nothing into the clipboard

[YgorSouza]

If you are building for WASM, you should add this to your project:

egui/.cargo/config.toml

Lines 1 to 6 in 262a8bc

	# clipboard api is still unstable, so web-sys requires the below flag to be passed for copy (ctrl + c) to work
	# https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/wasm-bindgen/web-sys/unstable-apis.html
	# check status at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard#browser_compatibility
	# we don't use `[build]` because of rust analyzer's build cache invalidation https://github.com/emilk/eframe_template/issues/93
	[target.wasm32-unknown-unknown]
	rustflags = ["--cfg=web_sys_unstable_apis"]

[itsNiccoloSabatini]

i'm going to try, any other idea for now?

[itsNiccoloSabatini]

So, really big update.
the reason why copy/paste wasn't working is that the site must be HTTPS to work and for my interface i need HTTP so that's the problem. i'm trying to find a solution.

[YgorSouza]

Really? Where did you see that? I mean it works as HTTP from localhost, doesn't it?

[emilk]

It may be that copy-and-paste only work in secure contexts:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/isSecureContext
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Secure_Contexts

[YgorSouza]

Yeah, that does seem to be the case.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

[itsNiccoloSabatini]

Yeah, that does seem to be the case.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

yes is that. we tried the HTTPS and it worked as it should. so yes the solution is USE HTTPS TO USE CLIPBOARD FEATURES