Calling ActionScript code from HTML JavaScript and obtaining return value?

Question

I need to obtain the text from the system clipboard in HTML JavaScript, in a way that it works on all browsers. Some form of clipboard.swf is sometimes used on many sites to copy text into the system clipboard.

How can I do the reverse, i.e. obtain the system clipboard's text in JavaScript via ActionScript code in a 1x1 swf file that I can embed in the page - the swf file can have code to get the clipboard text - How do I get this text in my JS code in the HTML page?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Getting the clipboard contents is unavailable due to security reasons (for example, user just copied his password or something).

Note: Because of security concerns, it is not possible to read the contents of the system Clipboard. In other words, there is no corresponding System.getClipboard() method.

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