How to select a cell instead of a line in a table

[-= JB =-]

Thanks for the info Jacque.

I am pretty new to Rev so I didn't know that.
Is it somehow faster than copying?

thanks again.
-=>JB<=-



On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Kresten Bjerg wrote:
>> Hi
>> Been working several hours with the copy paste solution, but all  
>> attempts to copy selectedchunk (or chunkinfo) to a selected field
>>  (in order  to retrieve the selectedtext (with fontspecifications)  
>> from there, to a variable, for further processing) fails.
>>  The variable watcher reports e.g. on  Put the clickchunk into  
>> chunkInfo : "char 108 to 117 of field 363". But all attempts to  
>> copy the thus indicated chunk gives an elaborate "it" (many level  
>> adresses) different from the text in the cell. And nothing gets  
>> pasted to the (visibly) selected field. It seems like the
>>  whole table is copied instead.
>> Could you suggest the scriptlines, which could do the trick ?
>
> You can set the clipboard contents directly without actually  
> copying or pasting, retrieving either plain text or styled text:
>
> set the clipboardData to the selection -- plain text, the default
> set the clipboarddata["html"] to the htmltext of the selection --  
> styled text
>
> If all you need is the text and font specs, you can do it directly  
> in a couple of lines:
>
> put the selection into myVar -- contains plain text
> put the effective textfont of the selection into myFont
>
> You can also get any other text properties. Usually there's no need  
> to actually copy and paste, but I haven't been following this  
> thread so I may have missed something.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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