Thanks to all who replied. I love Roger’s latest - it appears then that even if the clipboard contains styled text, that one command will lose the styling. That’s really what I wanted. Richmond’s solution only works if one programs the actual ‘paste’ - knowing what one is pasting into - but as I should have explained, I want the engine to simply execute the ‘paste’ command for me, so I don’t have to mess with fields and selections. This works very well in an ‘Edit’ menu for example: so do ‘copy’ and ‘cut’. It’s just that I found that if the text happened to be styled, it ended up like that in a field which didn’t expect it, and I didn’t want to give the user a function for making the text plain - not appropriate in the app I’m doing.
Graham > On 6 May 2015, at 18:47, Roger Eller <roger.e.el...@sealedair.com> wrote: > > Even better, you can paste into any field, whether inside or outside of > LiveCode: > > on mouseUp > > set the clipboardData["text"] to the clipboardData["text"] > > end mouseUp > > > > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Peter Brigham <pmb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Try this: >> put the clipboarddata["text"] into the selection >> >> -- Peter >> >> Peter M. Brigham >> pmb...@gmail.com >> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> wrote: >> >>> I want to make sure that any text pasted by my ‘paste’ menu gets pasted >> as >>> plain (unstyled) text whether or not it is styled to start with. >> Probably a >>> dumb question but I can’t quite see how to do this with ‘the >>> clipboardData’. Can anyone suggest how this should be done? >>> >>> TIA >>> >>> Graham >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
