Adobe AIR: detecting general events (e.g. keyboard or clipboard)

Question

Hello. I'm new here and I'm sorry if I write something wrong in advance.

In my AIR-application I need to detect general events to implement such features:

• reacting to copying the text, i.e. detecting changes in the clipboard;
• reacting to global shortcuts, i.e. detecting keyboard events when application is not in the focus.

The second point was already considered, for example, here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/370449/adobe-air-keyboard-hook

But last discussions took a place more then year ago, so, possibly, something has changed from that time.

So question: is there a way to detect these events or still not?

Thanks