# This one's a doozy

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-ones-a-doozy/303754>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 26, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-ones-a-doozy/303754 "2010-01-26T16:28:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Esseti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bb73d2/32.png) [@Esseti](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Esseti)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-ones-a-doozy/303754/1 "2010-01-26T16:28:11Z")

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Is there a way to detect if the user presses (in a devined timeslot, i.e. 200ms), two times Ctrl + C on the same highlighted text outside of a AIR app? AIR can setData and getData from the general clipboard (even in the window isn’t focused), but how to apply this to my example?