AW: Different result in LC 6 to LC 8 when copying field text into Excel?

[Mark Waddingham]

They are platform-specific - the 'original' win32 ones are here:

<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff729168(v=vs.85).aspx>

It looks like Tiemo has discovered a bug in the docs!

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

Sent from my iPhone

> On 8 Feb 2017, at 16:17, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Tiemo Hollmann wrote:
> 
> > I tested a little bit more and this code works for me:
> > on mouseUp
> >    lock clipboard
> >    set the rawClipBoardData to empty
> >    set the rawClipboardData["CF_UNICODETEXT"] to textEncode(fld 1, "UTF-16" )
> >    unlock clipboard
> > end mouseUp
> >
> > and the IDE doesn't crashes anymore.
> > BTW. The rawclipboarddata key is supposed to be ["CF_UNICODETEXT"]
> > and not ["CF_UNICODE"] as the docs say.
> 
> I wonder if the difference in keys is because the keys of the rawClipboardData are platform-specific.
> 
> After reading Mark Waddingham's note here last week on a related subject:
> http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2017-February/234491.html
> 
> ...I've come to regard the fullClipboardData as my go-to first choice for manipulating Clipboard contents, resorting to rawClipboardData only when I need some platform-specific special handling I can't address with fullClipboardData.
> 
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> Richard Gaskin
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