Paste Text and impossibility of changing the foregroundcolor

[Michael Kann]

Reinhold,

Let's say you pasted something into fld 1 and you don't like the font you see. The following script will make fld 1 display the font you have specified for that fld:

put fld 1 into fld 1

That's what I've been doing for years. There is probably a better way.

Mike



--- On Wed, 7/21/10, Reinhold Venzl-Schubert <r.venzl-schubert at macbay.de> wrote:

> From: Reinhold Venzl-Schubert <r.venzl-schubert at macbay.de>
> Subject: Paste Text and impossibility of changing the foregroundcolor
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 9:20 AM
> Hi!
> 
> I needed long a time until I found the reason why I can not
> change the foregroundcolor (textcolor) of a textfield.
> When I simply insert text with "paste text" into a
> textfield, the font of the field will be ignored. Only when
> I use "paste unformatted" the text get the font that is
> adjusted in the field properties.
> 
> Is there any possibility to use unformatted pasting all
> time as preference to avoid those mistakes?
> There is no shortcut to use "paste unformatted"
> It is very circumstantially to change the textfont
> subsequently. A field that has got pasted one time by an
> formatted test is like infected by this format. You cannot
> simple delete the text and paste again unformatted. It does
> not help. Sometimes it helps to copy the content of a not
> infected field into it. Very often the only possibility is
> to delete the whole card and create a new one.
> 
> Do anybody knows some code to fix this nervy thing?
> 
> Thanks
> Reinhold
> 
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