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

[-= JB =-]

That definitely helps me understand it better!

-=>JB<=-


On Jun 16, 2008, at 8:10 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> -= 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.
>>>
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