Mac Catalyst Copying NSURLs to the pasteboard translation is bad?

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Created Feb ’23

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So I copy a link to the pasteboard in Mac Catalyst. I can do this directly or by using system provided "Copy" in WKWebView from the WebUIDelegate method -webView:contextMenuForElement:willCommitWithAnimator: (which creates a "Copy Link action in the system provided "suggested actions").

So when I copy a link on Mac Catalyst like this:

[UIPasteboard generalPasteboard].URLs = @[urlToCopy];

And I try to paste it in Xcode (assuming I'd be pasting the URL string in this context) Xcode plays NSBeep and nothing is pasted. I have to paste the link in TextEdit in a Plain Text Document, select the text, copy it again and then paste it back in Xcode.

I'm having a pretty bad day here. Almost nothing is working.

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Macho Man Randy Savage OP

Feb ’23

This works better it seems:

NSString *string = urlToCopy.absoluteString;
NSArray *objects = (string != nil) ? @[urlToCopy,string] : @[urlToCopy];
[[UIPasteboard generalPasteboard] setObjects:objects];

Will have to remove WKWebViews default copy action.

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Macho Man Randy Savage OP

Feb ’23

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Answer 3

Macho Man Randy Savage OP

Feb ’23

Also noticed copying multiple links to the pasteboard does not work on Mac Catalyst.

[UIPasteboard generalPasteboard].URLs = @[appleDotComURL,websiteTwoURL,websiteThreeURL];

On iOS when I do that I can open "Notes" and paste and the strings for all three urls paste properly. But doing the same thing on Mac Catalyst it just pastes one url string...

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