>From the dictionary: The LiveCode development environment traps the pasteKey message <>, unless "Suspend LiveCode UI" is turned on in the Development menu. This means that the pasteKeymessage <> is not received by a stack <> if it's running in the development environment <>.
So if you are trying to do this in the IDE, then that may be the reason it will not work. Best regards Tore Nilsen > 23. jun. 2018 kl. 22:32 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > Hey, Wow, it's the Richmond school of shovels and primitive stuff at its > worst. > > If I have a field that conatins some styled text (let's call it "ff1"), and I > want to shift it > with its styling removed into another field (let's call it "ff2") then this > does the trick in a button: > > onmouseUp > gettheplainTextoffld "ff1" > putit intofld "ff2" > endmouseUp > > and that, oddly enough, might not be a bad place to get started. > > ALTHOUGH (ouch) this does NOT work: > > onpasteKey > gettheplainTextoftheclipboardData > putit intofld "ff2" > endpasteKey > > and this does not work: > > onpasteKey > puttheclipboardDataintofld "ff1" > send"mouseUp" tobtn "Button" > endpasteKey > > which would seem to suggest pasteKey is NOT trapping the paste signal at all. > > Richmond. > > > On 23/6/2018 5:15 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: >> Using LC9, I want to add a "paste without formatting" (as seen in may >> browser edit menus) command and I can't see to figure out how to do it. >> >> My most recent attempt of many still pastes formatted text (with >> underlining, bolding, italics, fonts, colors, etc. in place) >> >> *on*pasteKey *-- remove formatting* >> *if* theclipboardData["text"] isnotempty*then* >> *set*thetextofthetemplateFieldtoclipboardData["text"] >> *set*theclipboardDatatoempty >> *set*theclipboardData["text"] totheplaintextofthetemplateField >> *end* *if* >> *paste* >> *end*pasteKey >> >> Maybe I just haven't had enough Caffeine yet? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
