Copying from MS word into RunRev 4.0

[Jonathan Lynch]

Hi Keith,

The characters are entitely absent from the clipboarddata["html"] and every
other element of the clipboard array.

Are there other means of accessing the clipboard besides using the
clipboarddata or paste operations?

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Keith Clarke <
keith.clarke at clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote:

> It might be worth avoiding pasting into an LC field (LC fields can be
> awkward when working with formatted text such as HTML/XML as they interpret
> some tags). It might be worth an experiment to
> 1) paste the clipboard contents into an LC variable, instead of a field
> 2) set custom property to the variable and then
> 3) view the custom property in the Property inspector - to see if you get
> any characters or blanks
>
> That way you'd know if the problem is with the LC paste function (a
> potential engine bug) or simply a field rendering one (a problem I get with
> HTML and XML tags all the time).
> Best,
> Keith..
>
> On 2 Sep 2011, at 18:51, Jonathan Lynch wrote:
>
> > I just tried it, but no success.
> >
> > I copied a bunch of apostrophes from Word, and used a button that puts
> the
> > clipboarddata["html"] into a field. All the field shows is "<p></p>" -
> all
> > of the apostrophes were omitted, even though I can paste them into
> Notepad.
> >
> > Do you have any other suggestions? I will try them all.
> >
> > Unfortunately, all elements in the clipboarddata array do not have the
> > missing characters - I tried them.
> >
> > I just worked out a technique using VBScript and IE rather than Word, and
> it
> > works fine, but is no faster than the method I was using with Word.
> >
> > Are there any externals available that might be useful?
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 1:10 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On 9/2/11 10:21 AM, Jonathan Lynch wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi everyone.
> >>>
> >>> When I type this word into MS Word: it's
> >>>
> >>> Then copy and paste it into a field in RunRev, the apostrophe gets
> >>> omitted.
> >>> This is on a windows system. The character in question is not the usual
> >>> apostrophe, but is the curly apostrophe that MS Word uses.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I haven't tried it, but it might be possible to trap the pasteKey
> message
> >> and instead of pasting directly, set the htmltext of the selection to
> the
> >> clipboard["html"]. Maybe Word inserts character entities that LiveCode
> can
> >> read.
>
>
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