Yes. It's called "Textedit". You 2 hop it and all works wonderfully. Now that I think about it, I wonder what Applescript could do...
Bob On Dec 13, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote: > Is it possible to export the text from Word as RTF, then import into > Livecode as RTF? > > Bernard > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Sieg Lindstrom > <s...@trackandfieldnews.com>wrote: > >> I use a LiveCode app (OSX) to parse text taken from Word files, glean >> relevant data, write records to a database and also reformat the original >> text in certain ways. I copy and paste text from Word into a field in my >> app, click a button and it does the rest, until I upgraded to 5.0x. >> >> I'll say up front the details of text encoding are not my strong suit. With >> earlier versions (RunRev 4.x and earlier), I'd sometimes have to write >> special routines to search and replace certain characters from the pasted >> text. For example, the em-dash, "‹" (chartonum 209), which after pasting >> from Word was seen by RunRev as two characters (a two-byte character?), >> numtochar of 32 followed by numtochar of 20 so I wrote a routine to just >> search and replace to numToChar of 209. My new problem is that with >> LiveCode >> 5.0x (I just upgraded to 5.02), the em-dash if pasted from a Word file >> instantly disappears from the text. >> >> This... >> >> Berlin, Germany, December 12‹ >> >> becomes this... >> >> Berlin, Germany, December 12 >> >> This probably affects other characters; I'm not yet sure which ones. Any >> suggestions how I can seamlessly copy and paste the em-dash and other >> characters like it from Word to a LiveCode field? The only workaround, very >> inelegant, that I've found is to copy and paste from Word to TextEdit and >> then from TextEdit to LiveCode app. Not a welcome extra step. Thanks in >> advance. >> >> Sieg >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
