Disable Paste in Text Components

I have search everywhere I can think of for an answer to
this. I would like to find a way to disable pasting text into a
text component (e.g. TextInput). Could someone assist or point me
to a site that has information on how to disable pasting (i.e. copy
/ paste) either by right-click pasting, control-v, etc.?
Thanks.

You could add an event listener for a TextEvent, which will
ONLY contain a field with the text being "added". If it's being
typed, it'll have to be length==1. If it's being pasted it'll
probably be > 1, so perhaps you could negate the change using an
event handler like this. Of course, this would also disable a paste
of a single character, but people don't usually paste one character
anyway.
If you're able to provide this, knowing why you need to
disable paste might help us suggest alternative solutions or
workarounds.

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