pasting text from revbrowser
Serge Brami
brami.serge at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 16:32:39 EDT 2011
Hi
it happens nothing ...
always no returns
Le 24 juil. 2011 à 16:52, Slava Paperno a écrit :
> What happens if you replace char(10) with the string "<br>"?
>
> Slava
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
>> bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Serge Brami
>> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 5:22 AM
>> To: How to use LiveCode
>> Subject: Re: pasting text from revbrowser
>>
>> 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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