Hi. I always use the “htmlText”.
Of course this encodes the original text with HTML tags, so you cannot just: set the clipBoardData to the htmlText of fld 1 set the text of fld 2 to the clipBoardData you have to: set the htmltext of fld 2 to the clipBoardData Craig > On Nov 13, 2023, at 12:18 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hivemind, > > Recommendation as to what is best to set the clipboardData property to, when > you want to copy styled text from a field to the clipboard for exchange with > a 3rd party (any 3rd party) application that supports some form of styled > text, that can include text in multiple languages (i.e. Unicode)? > > Examples: > 1) set the clipboardData["rtf"] to the rtfText of fld "X" > 2) set the clipboardData["html"] to the htmlText of fld "X" > 3) set the clipboardData["text"] to the text of fld "X" -- since the text in > field since LC7 is unicode > 4) set the clipboardData["unicode"] to the textEncode(fld "X","UTF-16") > > Something else? Should fullClipboardData or rawClipboardData be used instead? > Looking for best practice recommendation. > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
