Directly pasting into an LC field produces the exact same result. Wrong.
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:18 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: > Thanks Scott, > I know how to screen scrape from the html source... > > I want to use the contents of the clipboard to just get the part I need. > And this return business is getting in the way.... I get a block of text > with question marks instead of returns. I'm not sure how actual question > marks show up yet. > > There are no LFs or any other control characters in the copied text other > than the question marks. I've tried using clipboardData[rtf] > and clipboardData unicode] and setting the field to the appropriate mode. > No difference. > > I have a utility I created to examine the various keys in the > clipboardData, and it gives me a hex dump of the contents of any of the > keys.... > > By the way, the text copied from the browser pastes perfectly into > Tex-Edit, an application that I've used for over 20 years and has a nice > way to display the ascii value of any character in its text. > > Could this be a problem with the way that Livecode copies text into > clipboardData? > > this should just work. > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Scott Rossi <sc...@tactilemedia.com>wrote: > >> Do you have to use the copied text or can you use the source HTML text? >> >> set text of fld 1 to url "http://jazzcubed.com/"; >> > > > > > -- > > > > Stephen Barncard > San Francisco Ca. USA > > more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> > -- 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
