To expand on this, below are the handlers I have in my LC frontscript, so I can paste and match style anywhere in LC.
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ---------- on commandKeyDown pKey -- to paste plain text -- (matching the formatting of the target field) -- Mac: command-control-V -- Win: control-alt-V -- (change these if you wish, in the pastePlain handler) -- put this handler and the pastePlain hanlder into a frontscript -- where it will operate everywhere in LC -- requires pastePlain switch pKey case "V" pastePlain if the result is "justPaste" then pass commandKeyDown end if break default -- add your other commandkey scripts before the default pass commandKeyDown end switch end commandKeyDown on pastePlain -- to paste plain text -- (matching the formatting of the target field) -- Mac: command-control-V -- Win: control-alt-V -- (change these if you wish) -- put this handler and the commandKeyDown hanlder into a frontscript -- where it will operate everywhere in LC -- requires commandKeyDown if the tool is not "browse tool" \ or the clipboard is not "text" \ or the selectedField is empty then return "justPaste" end if switch the platform case "MacOS" if the controlkey is up then return "justPaste" break case "Win32" if the altkey is up then return "justPaste" break default return "justPaste" end switch -- now plain text is needed put the clipboarddata["text"] into the selectedchunk end pastePlain ---------- On Nov 17, 2015, at 12:50 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > I think this works: > > put clipboardData["text"] into the selectedchunk > > There may be failure modes I'm unaware of. > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Charles Szasz <csz...@mac.com> wrote: > >> I having been trying to implement Paste and Match Style found on Pages app >> and also on Word, which is called Paste Special, where the text contents of >> the clipboard are pasted into a document that matches the existing font and >> font style in the document. >> >> I searched the Rev and LC archives and could not find any examples. Does >> anyone have a script for this? >> >> Sent from my iPad >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
