pasting from browser text

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Mon Sep 23 19:21:13 EDT 2013


Directly pasting into an LC field produces the exact same result. Wrong.


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:18 PM, stephen barncard <
stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:

> Thanks Scott,
> I know how to screen scrape from the html source...
>
> I want to use the contents of the clipboard to just get the part I need.
> And this return business is getting in the way.... I get a block of text
> with question marks instead of returns.   I'm not sure how actual question
> marks show up yet.
>
> There are no LFs or any other control characters in the copied text other
> than the question marks.  I've tried using clipboardData[rtf]
> and clipboardData unicode] and setting the field to the appropriate mode.
>  No difference.
>
> I have a utility I created to examine the various keys in the
> clipboardData, and it gives me a hex dump of the contents of any of the
> keys....
>
> By the way, the text copied from the browser pastes perfectly into
> Tex-Edit, an application that I've used for over 20 years and has a nice
> way to display the ascii value of any character in its text.
>
> Could this be a problem with the way that Livecode copies text into
> clipboardData?
>
> this should just work.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com>wrote:
>
>> Do you have to use the copied text or can you use the source HTML text?
>>
>> set text of fld 1 to url "http://jazzcubed.com/"
>>
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> Stephen Barncard
> San Francisco Ca. USA
>
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