Hi Keith, The characters are entitely absent from the clipboarddata["html"] and every other element of the clipboard array.
Are there other means of accessing the clipboard besides using the clipboarddata or paste operations? On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Keith Clarke < keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
