It might be worth avoiding pasting into an LC field (LC fields can be awkward when working with formatted text such as HTML/XML as they interpret some tags). It might be worth an experiment to 1) paste the clipboard contents into an LC variable, instead of a field 2) set custom property to the variable and then 3) view the custom property in the Property inspector - to see if you get any characters or blanks
That way you'd know if the problem is with the LC paste function (a potential engine bug) or simply a field rendering one (a problem I get with HTML and XML tags all the time). Best, Keith.. On 2 Sep 2011, at 18:51, Jonathan Lynch 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 > <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>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. _______________________________________________ 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
