Copy from Mac OS X does not copy to iPhone Simulator

Question

In my iPhone app, I have many ASCII arts which I need to insert into the database.

I am using the simulator and pasting the textpic in the textview to insert the ASCII a

Answer 1

Check out the text property of the UITextView. Simply load your textpic into an NSString, and set that string to be the text property of the TextView.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UITextView_Class/Reference/UITextView.html%23//apple_ref/occ/instp/UITextView/text

Answer 2

As a last step try to restart Xcode and iOS simulator
Menu -> Hardware -> Restart

Answer 3

• ⌘ + C - Copies the contents of the iOS clipboard to OS X. This works for both text and images.
• ⌘ + ⇧ + C - Copies the selected text (or whatever else responds to the copy: selector in your app) to the iOS clipboard. This one does not appear in the menu.
• ⌘ + ⌃ + C - Copies a screenshot of the iOS app (without the simulator's chrome) to the OS X clipboard (Use ⌘ + S to save it to a file on the Desktop instead).
• ⌘ + V - Copies the contents of the OS X clipboard over to iOS, but doesn't paste it. Again, this works for both text and images.
• ⌘ + ⌃ + V - Pastes the OS X clipboard in the iOS app, but leaves the clipboard unchanged. This does not work with images.

Source: http://olemoritz.net/copypaste-in-the-ios-simulator.html

Answer 4

This is strange issue in my pc. I have macOs Sierra 10.xx++ installed in my mac. What i do is ,

1. Copy the content from your mac using command + c or keyboard.

2. Now press command + v in the particular place you want to paste the content.

3. Now Paste in the simulator using command + shift + v

Working well. Confirmed answer.!

Answer 5

I was getting frustrated with copy and paste in the simulator and couldn't figure out what was going on.

Results were similar to what you describe: copy and paste would sometimes paste the same value as I had copied before, but not what I just copied to the clipboard.

I finally realized that the simulator has it's own clipboard, separate from the main OS X clipboard.

You use the touch-based copy and paste commands to paste into your application from the simulator clipboard.

You can use the standard OS X copy paste shortcuts (Command-X,C,V) to paste from the system clipboard into the simulator clipboard.

So to copy and paste from Chrome (for example), you select the text in Chrome, Command-C to copy. Then switch to the simulator, Command-V to paste into the simulator clipboard. Then in your application, you simulate a touch in the textfield to bring up the paste option, then simulate a touch to the paste button to paste the simulator clipboard contents into the app.

The menu options do the same thing as the keyboard shortcuts--copy/paste between the system clipboard and the simulator keyboard.

Now that I figured it out, I actually like it much better than if the simulator clipboard was automatically tied to the OS X clipboard.

Answer 6

You can copy the content from mac using ⌘ + ⇧ + C and paste in browser url using ⌘ + V .

It's working for me.