What to set the clipboardData to for exchanging styled text with a 3rd party app

[Craig Newman]

Hi.

I always use the “htmlText”.

Of course this encodes the original text with HTML tags, so you cannot just:

set the clipBoardData to the htmlText of fld 1
set the text of fld 2 to the clipBoardData

you have to:  set the htmltext of fld 2 to the clipBoardData



Craig


> On Nov 13, 2023, at 12:18 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hivemind,
> 
> Recommendation as to what is best to set the clipboardData property to, when you want to copy styled text from a field to the clipboard for exchange with a 3rd party (any 3rd party) application that supports some form of styled text, that can include text in multiple languages (i.e. Unicode)?
> 
> Examples:
> 1) set the clipboardData["rtf"] to the rtfText of fld "X"
> 2) set the clipboardData["html"] to the htmlText of fld "X"
> 3) set the clipboardData["text"] to the text of fld "X" -- since the text in field since LC7 is unicode
> 4) set the clipboardData["unicode"] to the textEncode(fld "X","UTF-16")
> 
> Something else? Should fullClipboardData or rawClipboardData be used instead? Looking for best practice recommendation.
> 
> 
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