RTFText, HTMLText, and Formatted Content in RR

[Wolfgang M. Bereuter]

On Friday, Jul 18, 2003, at 16:45 Europe/Vienna, Dan Shafer wrote:

> I don't quite know what you mean abou tsetting the textfield to RTF 
> *before* you paste the text. Do you "set the rtfText of field 1 to 
> 'a'" or some such thing? I think the rtfText of a field can only be 
> set by supplying it with a string (which is generally something read 
> from a file, I think). Or am I missing something?
>
I
I do it with this script in the Message Box (hehe, its the first time a 
used that "animal")
How and why this exactly works I dont know, maybe one of the scripting 
Gurus can help out...
Here is the great posting from Vikram, with which I learned to do that.
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RTF vs HTML
Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com

I can't talk of the benefits of exporting rtf as files, but if you are
copy-pasting from other apps this may interest you:

Copy a portion of a webpage. In the message box type:
set the rtftext of fld 1 to clipboarddata["rtf"]

And viceversa, paste into Word after copying the rtftext of a field:
set the clipboarddata["rtf"] to the rtftext of fld 1

etc..

Rgds,
Vikram
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copy the rtf (exported) text (from any fileformat you have) to the 
clipboard
select any textfield in rev
-- to the message box: 
set the rtftext of fld 1 to clipboarddata["rtf"]
Enter
And the formated text is in the textfield

Select "basic properties" in the property palette if it is open
after pasting you can select "contents" to make some fine tuning...)
dont select content before pasting, that does not work here...
means all is in the textfield, but does not appear in the content of 
the palette
Why?? -- One of this thousand rev miracles..?

Hope that helps, if not pls tell me.

regards
Wolfgang M. Bereuter

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