Tested with LC 6.1.1 and 5.5.5 - same thing by the way, pasting back from the pasted text of Tex-Edit or TextMate back to LC looks fine as well.
Should this be reported as a bug? I'm surprised this hasn't happened to anyone else... On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:21 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: > 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> > -- 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
