pasting text from revbrowser

[Serge Brami]

Thanks 
platform = Mac OSX snow leopard

checkreturns   return  only Found char 10 a return in rev/unix

but if I replace numtochar(10) with CRLF or numtochar(13) or return it doesnt change anything ...

Le 23 juil. 2011 à 16:03, Jim Ault a écrit :

> On Jul 23, 2011, at 3:48 AM, Serge Brami wrote:
>> I try to get  the contents of a  revbrowser window  and paste it into a livecode  field
>> the web page is a banking chart
>> 
>> first I select manually the text in the revbrowser window
>> 
>> Then  I Use revbrowserGet  selected put the contents into myvariable  and paste it into a field  (using  :set   the htmltext of field myfield  to myvariable)
>> the problem is that all the return characters disappears
>> 
>> Even  if  i copy  manually the text  and paste it directly in a field i get the same thing
>> If I copy the text manually and paste it into a Word processor software it works fine   the return characters don't disappear
> 
> You have not specified which platform, but try this test
> 
> on checkReturns
>   if the clipboardData contains numtochar(13) then
>      answer "Found char 13, a return on a Mac"
>   end if
> if the clipboardData contains numtochar(10) then
>      answer "Found char 10, a return in Rev/ Unix"
>   end if
> if the clipboardData contains CRLF then
>      answer "Found char 1310, a return-line feed in Windows"
>   end if
> if the clipboardData contains "<br" then
>      answer "Found <br"
>   end if
> if the clipboardData contains "<p" then
>      answer "Found char <p"
>   end if
> end checkReturns
> 
> Also, look up CRLF in the dictionary.
> Another factor in Html is that the <br> may be a tag that is used to create the effect of a return char on the web page.
> 
> A word processor program is designed to do many conversions for the user's convenience, such as clipboard conversions of text and graphics.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
> 
> 
> 
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