Was there a problem with what dr.text or [dr toString] returned after your first line?
On 10/04/2010 12:15 AM, "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <gerr...@mdenkmann.de> wrote: > I have a Webview, and I want to do something with the selected text. > > I tried: > DOMRange *dr = [ webView selectedDOMRange ]; > NSString *m = [ dr markupString ]; > this contains the selected characters, but buried in lots of markup language. > But I just want the characters. > > NSString *s= [ dr stringRepresentation ]; > just returns "Undefined". > > I could do [webView copy:nil ]; and then get the string from the general > pasteboard, but I rather do not like to mess up the pasteboard - the user > might have put something important there. > > So I tried: > NSPasteboard *pasteboard = [ NSPasteboard pasteboardWithUniqueName ]; > NSArray *types = [ NSArray arrayWithObject: NSPasteboardTypeString ]; > [ webView writeSelectionWithPasteboardTypes: types toPasteboard: pasteboard > ]; > NSString *po = [ pasteboard stringForType: NSPasteboardTypeString ]; > NSLog(@"%s selectedString \"%...@\"",__FUNCTION__,po); > > but the result is: selectedString "(null)" > Adding [ pasteboard declareTypes: types owner: nil ] does not make any > changes. > > So what am I doing wrong? > How to get the selection as string form a WebView? > > > Kind regards, > > Gerriet. > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
