Stripping styling from the clipboard...

[Tom Glod]

Paul...may I ask you why your code pasting is the way it is ?...is there
some kind of practical reason for it being that way?...sure is harder to
read that way.

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 5:55 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Okay, I missed that in the entry. That explains why the pasteKey message
> wasn't working.
>
> I am all set now. Thank you.
>
>
> On 6/23/2018 5:15 PM, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote:
> > >From the dictionary:
> >
> > The LiveCode development environment traps the pasteKey message <>,
> unless "Suspend LiveCode UI" is turned on in the Development menu. This
> means that the pasteKeymessage <> is not received by a stack <> if it's
> running in the development environment <>.
> >
> > So if you are trying to do this in the IDE, then that may be the reason
> it will not work.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Tore Nilsen
> >
> >> 23. jun. 2018 kl. 22:32 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> >>
> >> Hey, Wow, it's the Richmond school of shovels and primitive stuff at
> its worst.
> >>
> >> If I have a field that conatins some styled text (let's call it "ff1"),
> and I want to shift it
> >> with its styling removed into another field (let's call it "ff2") then
> this does the trick in a button:
> >>
> >> onmouseUp
> >> gettheplainTextoffld "ff1"
> >> putit intofld "ff2"
> >> endmouseUp
> >>
> >> and that, oddly enough, might not be a bad place to get started.
> >>
> >> ALTHOUGH (ouch) this does NOT work:
> >>
> >> onpasteKey
> >>   gettheplainTextoftheclipboardData
> >>   putit intofld "ff2"
> >> endpasteKey
> >>
> >> and this does not work:
> >>
> >> onpasteKey
> >>  puttheclipboardDataintofld "ff1"
> >>  send"mouseUp" tobtn "Button"
> >> endpasteKey
> >>
> >> which would seem to suggest pasteKey is NOT trapping the paste signal
> at all.
> >>
> >> Richmond.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 23/6/2018 5:15 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
> >>> Using LC9, I want to add a "paste without formatting" (as seen in may
> >>> browser edit menus) command and I can't see to figure out how to do it.
> >>>
> >>> My most recent attempt of many still pastes formatted text (with
> >>> underlining, bolding, italics, fonts, colors, etc. in place)
> >>>
> >>> *on*pasteKey *-- remove formatting*
> >>> *if* theclipboardData["text"] isnotempty*then*
> >>> *set*thetextofthetemplateFieldtoclipboardData["text"]
> >>> *set*theclipboardDatatoempty
> >>> *set*theclipboardData["text"] totheplaintextofthetemplateField
> >>> *end* *if*
> >>> *paste*
> >>> *end*pasteKey
> >>>
> >>> Maybe I just haven't had enough Caffeine yet?
> >>>
> >>>
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