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

[J. Landman Gay]

-= JB =- wrote:
> Thanks for the info Jacque.
> 
> I am pretty new to Rev so I didn't know that.
> Is it somehow faster than copying?

I've never actually timed it but I imagine it would be, since you're 
avoiding the second, extra field access. But the main reason I do it 
that way is because it's just easier to get the info directly, without 
involving the clipboard layer abstraction. The other big plus is that it 
doesn't change the user's clipboard behind their back, so your customers 
don't hate you.

> 
> 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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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com