It occurred to me a little belatedly that someone might be interested in a handler I use for pasting unformatted text (so that it matches the text formatting of the target field). I have this in my LC frontscript, so it's available to me everywhere in LC:
on commandKeyDown pKey -- command-control-V pastes plain text -- (to match the formatting of the target field) if pKey is not "V" then pass commandKeyDown if the controlKey is up then pass commandKeyDown -- cmd-ctrl-V only if the tool is not "browse tool" then pass commandKeyDown if the clipboard is not "text" then pass commandKeyDown if the selectedField is empty then pass commandKeyDown if the long name of the target contains "revNewScriptEditor" \ then pass commandKeyDown -- other cases are now filtered out, -- plain text is needed set the HTMLText of the templatefield to the clipboardData["HTML"] if the autoTab of the selectedField then get the text of the templatefield replace return with space in it set the text of the templatefield to it end if set the clipboardData["TEXT"] to the text of the templatefield reset the templatefield paste end commandKeyDown Very handy thing to have available, I have found. This will need tweaking for a Windows platform, given the differences in commandkey/controlkey handling c/w OSX. Just alter it to use another modifier key combo as needed. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Oct 25, 2011, at 4:51 PM, John Brozycki wrote: > Thanks, Terry and Klaus for responding. I used Klaus' recommendation. > > Sure enough, there WAS a better way! > > On Oct 25, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> Am 25.10.2011 um 21:05 schrieb Terry Judd: >> >>> On 26/10/2011, at 05:51 AM, John Brozycki wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have an input field that accepts URLs. If a user copies a URL from an >>> email or a website and pastes it, it is pasted in HTML format. I only want >>> the field to be plain text. I can set the font and size, but it seems like >>> fields always exist with (plain)text and htmltext states and LiveCode >>> automatically accepts htmltext when it's entered. Is there a setting to >>> make a field ONLY plaintext, even if a user copies and pastes a URL from an >>> email or browser? >>> My current workaround is to trap the paste function for the field, then >>> paste and convert it, which happens instantaneously from a user standpoint: >>> >>> on pasteKey >>> paste >>> set the htmltext of field "URLField" to the text of field "URLField" >>> end pasteKey >> >> try this: >> on pasteKey >> put the clipboarddata["text"] into fld "URLField" >> end pasteKey >> >> Check "clipboarddata" in the dictionary. >> >>> So, this works, but I was wondering if there is a way to limit a field to >>> only plaintext so I wouldn't have to do this. Any recommendations >>> appreciated. >>> Much of a muchness, but you could try clearing the clipboardData["html"] >>> before you paste in your pasteKey handler. That way you should just be >>> pasting plain text. >>> Terry... >>> >>> Thanks, >>> John >> >> Best >> >> Klaus >> >> -- >> Klaus Major >> http://www.major-k.de >> kl...@major.on-rev.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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