Does anybody have a working solution for disabling to copy and cut text from a password text field? ...

# compose-desktop

[Sebastian Kürten]

Does anybody have a working solution for disabling to copy and cut text from a password text field?

I found some questions on SO with hacky workarounds, but I think might be working on Android only and not on desktop https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70518908/how-to-disable-copy-paste-cut-in-a-textfield-jetpack-compose

[Sebastian Kürten]

also found this thread: https://app.slack.com/client/T09229ZC6/CJLTWPH7S/thread/CJLTWPH7S-1664452514.539959 but I think it's also focused on Android

[eskatos]

Not an answer but preventing paste would prevent users from using a password manager

[Sebastian Kürten]

yeah, pasting should still be enabled, just copying and cutting out of the text field should get disabled

[Sebastian Kürten]

Our current work in progress solution is this:

LocalClipboardManager provides object : ClipboardManager {
    override fun getText() = clipboardManager.getText() // allow pasting text from clipboard
    override fun setText(annotatedString: AnnotatedString) = Unit // don't allow copying text into clipboard
}

it does more or less what we like to do, i.e. copying from the textfield is effectively impossible, however the UI still shows the Cut/Copy buttons when text is selected and right-clicked.

[orangy]

I think this deserves an issue to be filed

[Sebastian Kürten]

Great, created one: https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/issues/3062