I am thinking that this could be accomplished with a hidden RevBrowser stack that points to an HTML page that has nothing but a single text area.
typing ^v ^a ^c into the browser text area would get me the clipboard text in a clean fashion, and be much faster than how I do it now. Will update if I can figure out how to make it work Peace, J On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Jonathan Lynch <[email protected]>wrote: > I just tried it, but no success. > > I copied a bunch of apostrophes from Word, and used a button that puts the > clipboarddata["html"] into a field. All the field shows is "<p></p>" - all > of the apostrophes were omitted, even though I can paste them into Notepad. > > Do you have any other suggestions? I will try them all. > > Unfortunately, all elements in the clipboarddata array do not have the > missing characters - I tried them. > > I just worked out a technique using VBScript and IE rather than Word, and > it works fine, but is no faster than the method I was using with Word. > > Are there any externals available that might be useful? > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 1:10 PM, J. Landman Gay <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> On 9/2/11 10:21 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. >>> >> >> I haven't tried it, but it might be possible to trap the pasteKey message >> and instead of pasting directly, set the htmltext of the selection to the >> clipboard["html"]. Maybe Word inserts character entities that LiveCode can >> read. >> >> -- >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected] >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> >> > > > > -- > Do all things with love > -- Do all things with love _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
