1) First create your button. For todays tutorial we are using the one found in the components menu. Name it copy_btn. It should now look like this:

2) No on the actions layer, put in:

        copy_btn.onRelease = function(){

       System.setClipboard("hello");

        };

3) Test your movie, when you press the copy button, it will copy "hello" to the clipbooard.

4) To expand this function we could type:

        copy_btn.onRelease = function(){

        System.setClipboard(_root.text_txt);

        };

This would copy a text box called _root.text_txt. This only works with dynamic text boxes.

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