visual effects/copy to clipboard/print field

[J. Landman Gay]

On 8/4/03 6:54 PM, Thomas Cole wrote:

> I have solved all my serious problems with my stack. It's miraculous. It
> runs on 98/XP/Mac 9/OSX. I can't believe how well it works. This thing is
> great.

Even after a few years, that "wow" factor is still with me. It really is 
a wonder.

> I  do need to know why my visual effects have disappeared. I'd like them
> back, but they're not essential. Wipe right.... etc.

A common mistake is to put the visual effect in quotes. HyperCard 
required it; Revolution forbids it. Take out any quotation marks you may 
have around visual effects, even if they are more than one word.

> Also in converting my HC stack, my button COPY TO CLIPBOARD that used to
> copy the contents of a field to the clipboard doesn't work and and I still
> don't have a way to print that same field. 

Use "the clipboardData" or the clipboardData["text"] to put text into 
the clipboard (text is the default, so you don't need to specify the 
array element in this one case.) You can put other kinds of things into 
the clipboard by specifying the element, for example:

   put img "myPicture" into the clipboardData["image"]

See the docs about "clipboardData" for more.

See "revPrintField" for printing the contents of a field.

> Thanks for your help. I'm nearly there after just five sittings!
> Tom
> 
> Tom Cole
> Associate Director
> American English and Culture Program
> College of Extended Education
> Arizona State University
> tom.cole at asu.edu   http://www.asu.edu/xed/aecp
> 480-965-2371
> 
> 


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