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A slightly better implementation would have been to have a JavaScript click event on every colour and then use a JavaScript to Flash function to do the copy to clipboard. Then only one Flash file would have had to be loaded.

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AFAIK, it wouldn't work. Flash can only copy to the clipboard after an event like click, doubleclick, etc, within the swf.

He is saying that when you click on the color it sends a message to the flash object as to which color they are interested in and then the popup will be eligible to click on which will then copy to the clipboard.

Because Flash objects are positioned above every other element on the page, I'd have to guess which color is below the large, single Flash object. I tried doing this with variable levels of success, but concluded that having a Flash object for every color didn't have any huge downside. Performance seems to be acceptable, unless you're using IE. Let me know if you have any performance issues.

The page takes a couple of seconds to refresh on a 2007 Mac Mini.

Take a look here, this piece of code provides `copy("text");` in JavaScript, and uses only one SWF (I think). sites.google.com/site/yangshuai10/jquerycopyplugin

http://sites.google.com/site/yangshuai10/jquerycopyplugin (just linking)

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