Extracting selected text does not work on macOS

[leanflutter]

Extracting selected text does not work on macOS

[imhafeez]

@breitburg did you find any solution? It doesn't work on macOS

[breitburg]

@breitburg did you find any solution? It doesn't work on macOS

Yes. Giving Accessibility permissions to the app fixed issue for me.

[imhafeez]

@breitburg how you can give Accessibility permissions? Any package for permissions to alert user to give that permission?

[breitburg]

@breitburg how you can give Accessibility permissions? Any package for permissions to alert user to give that permission?

There are two methods available in this library: ScreenTextExtractor.requestAccess() and ScreenTextExtractor.isAccessAllowed()

[imhafeez]

I used these. ScreenTextExtractor.instance.requestAccess() did nothing. May be because of debug build, I was running direct from vscode. but don't know.

[breitburg]

Try to manually give Accessibility permissions in system settings. Also you can try removing App Sandbox from Xcode project. Hope that helps!

[imhafeez]

Thanks @breitburg. Let me try that out.

[0406445]

On macos, this is done by simulating duplicate keys, such as in idea, which will not work if the user changes the key