Control+v in Win7 IE9

Question

I have a director movie with Lingo scripting which contains a multiline text component and people are complaining that the CTRL+V does not work anymore.
I narrowed it down to Windows 7, IE 9.
Does anyone else have this problem and know a workaround.
I programmed it years ago in mx2004.  If I have to buy the latest version of director I can also do this if I know it will work.
Regards
Jonathan Carter

Answer 1

I've made some changes to the test DCR: I've applied a behaviour that listens for a [cntrl]+[v], and that then uses Lingo to paste the clipboard into the field when triggered. This is still just a basic Director-native text member, BTW. The test is at the same URL as before.
FYI - Applying the behaviour made the field behave strangely in Safari - specifically, the caret position was stuck at the last character in the field, and if I clicked anywhere in the text field it would create a selection from the clicked point to the end of the field. So the behaviour also takes care of placing the caret / making a text selection. (It's particularly weird cos this didn't happen with the first test so would seem to be something to do with attaching a behaviour to a text sprite).
There's also a possibility that I've stumbled upon a the cause of the problem: When I tested this DCR in Safari I noted that the first attempt at pasting causes the SW player to show an alert box asking the user to confirm that they want to give the app access to the clipboard. When you click "yes" nothing happens, but if you then try to paste again it will work (and no confirmation box is shown).
Given that this didn't happen with the first test DCR I'm presuming that the confirmation box is being triggered by the behaviour's call to the pasteClipboardInto() method. And this is making me wonder whether, in the absence of the user granting specific permission, IE9 is simply blocking the paste command, hence it not being passed to the DCR, and hence the problem you're having.
This also makes sense when you consider that a keyboard-shortcut paste command would (I expect) need to be passed from IE9 into SW Player in order to work. So when you hit [cntrl]+[v] IE9 blocks the command because it hasn't been granted permission, and because SW Player therefore doesn't receive the command it doesn't trigger the clipboard-access-confirmation dialog that would allow SW Player to instruct IE9 to enable paste shortcuts.
If this is the case then simply calling pasteClipboardInto() when the DCR loads and then clicking "yes" on the clipboard-access-confirmation dialog, may be sufficient to persuade IE9 not to ignore the paste commands, thus solving your problem. You could test this using the movie(s) you're having problems with - just add a dummy text member to a cast and call pasteClipboadInto() on it from a startMovie handler. For example:
on startMovie
     member("pastePad").pasteClipboardInto()
end 
Fingers crossed again...!