'un-style' clipboard text...

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Mar 2 11:19:02 EST 2004


On 3/2/04 2:12 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Hi Jeanne, Jan -- me again :-)
> 
> Turns out my RR2.1.2 was hosed. Reinstalled and now this works for me.
> 
> on pasteIt
>   put the selectedChunk into tChunk
>   if tChunk is empty then exit to top
>   if the clipboard is text then
>     put the clipboardData["text"] into tTxt
>     put "put tTxt into " & tChunk into tDo
>     do tDo
>   end if
> end pasteIt
> 
> 
> This will effectively paste styled text w/out the style into a fld,
> replacing the selected text.

This does too:

   set the textstyle of the selection to "plain"

It is both shorter and retains the selection and the scroll. No need to 
save and re-select.

-- 
Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com


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