What is DRM? On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:45 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote:
> That's an interesting method of DRM. Another level of obfuscation. Thanks > Microsoft. > > On 2 September 2011 09:07, 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 > > > > > > -- > > > > Stephen Barncard > San Francisco Ca. USA > > more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
