Richard Burkett wrote:
> on mouseUp
> put fld "myField" into tClip
> lock the clipBoard
> set the ClipboardData to empty
> set the ClipboardData to tClip
> put the clipboardData["text"] into tClip
> set the rawclipBoardData to empty
> if the platform is "MacOS" then
> set the rawClipboardData["public.utf8-plain-text"] \
> to textEncode(tClip, "UTF-8" ) -- OSX
> else if the platform is "Linux" then
> set the rawClipboardData["text/plain;charset=utf-8"] \
> to textEncode(tClip, "UTF-8" ) -- Linux
> else if the platform contains "Win" then
> set the rawClipboardData["CF_UNICODE"] \
> to textEncode(tClip, "UTF-16" ) -- Windows
> end if
> unlock the clipBoard
> end mouseUp
Nice, but not as nice as:
copy
I appreciate that we have the flexibility to do arcane things with the
Clipboard when needed, but shouldn't the copy command handle the most
common cases without requiring new users to research and experiment in
the hope of arriving at the above block of code?
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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