How can I empty the clipboard?

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Andre Rombauts <andre.rombauts at win.be> wrote:
> Le 17/11/2002 17:42, Jan Schenkel 
> janschenkel at yahoo.com a crit:
> 
> > There's no real way of doing that as far as I
> know.
> > Besides, it's not really user-friendly is it?
> > The question is: what are you trying to
> accomplish?
> 
> Just set the clipboard to "nodata" when starting an
> new session in a text
> editor for students. I would like to prevent pasting
> text format no
> applicable in my editor. No problem to prevent
> pasting an image but if I
> have RTF text in the clipboard instead of pure ASCII
> I have no way to
> prevent pasting it...
> 
> Andr
> 

Hi Andre,

How about this in your field script:

on pasteKey
  send "plainText" to me in 1 tick
  -- strip of the style elements after pasting
  pass pasteKey
end pasteKey

on plainText
  lock screen
  -- strip of any style elements from the content,
  -- thus leaving only the ones set in the field 
  -- itself or in the runtime environment
  set the textHeight of char 1 to -1 of me to empty
  set the textFont of char 1 to -1 of me to empty
  set the textColor of char 1 to -1 of me to empty
  set the textShift of char 1 to -1 of me to empty
  set the textStyle of char 1 to -1 of me to empty
  set the textStyle of char 1 to -1 of me to empty
  -- possibly a few more, you'll have to check
  unlock screen
end plainText

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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