Thanks for testing it, Bob :) On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Jonathan Lynch <jonathandly...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Even with both apps open, it omits apostrophes when i paste from Word to > RunRev 4.0 > > If I paste it into notepad first, then copy and paste from notepad into > Rev, it works fine without dropping characters. > > > > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > >> I did this on a Mac and it works fine. I believe that MS Office clipboard >> data is specially formatted, and the app has to be running in order to do an >> on the fly translation of the data. I have noticed in the past that if I >> copy something from an office product and then launch another program, then >> paste, I usually get nothing, because the other app wasn't open at the time >> I copied, so I suspect the translation only gets done when switching between >> open applications. >> >> Bob >> >> >> On Sep 2, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Jonathan Lynch wrote: >> >> > Hi everyone. >> > >> > When I type this word into MS Word: it's >> > >> > Then copy and paste it into a field in RunRev, the apostrophe gets >> omitted. >> > This is on a windows system. The character in question is not the usual >> > apostrophe, but is the curly apostrophe that MS Word uses. >> > >> > This is quite an issue for me. My work around is to hijack the paste >> > operation, use VB Script to create an invisible Word doc and save that >> doc >> > as a text file, then use Rev to retrieve the contents of the text file. >> This >> > works, but takes approximately 1.5 seconds to complete the procedure. >> > >> > Does anyone know if the recent versions of Live Code allow for pasting >> from >> > an MS Word document without omitting characters? I know it worked fine >> back >> > with RunRev 2.5, so I know it is possible for it to be done. >> > Well, thanks for you help. >> > >> > Peace, >> > >> > Jonathan >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Do all things with love >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > > > > -- > Do all things with love > -- Do all things with love _______________________________________________ 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
