pasting text from revbrowser

[Slava Paperno]

What happens if you replace char(10) with the string "<br>"?

Slava

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Serge Brami
> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 5:22 AM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: pasting text from revbrowser
> 
> Thanks
> platform = Mac OSX snow leopard
> 
> checkreturns   return  only Found char 10 a return in rev/unix
> 
> but if I replace numtochar(10) with CRLF or numtochar(13) or return it
doesnt
> change anything ...
> 
> Le 23 juil. 2011 à 16:03, Jim Ault a écrit :
> 
> > On Jul 23, 2011, at 3:48 AM, Serge Brami wrote:
> >> I try to get  the contents of a  revbrowser window  and paste it into
> >> a livecode  field the web page is a banking chart
> >>
> >> first I select manually the text in the revbrowser window
> >>
> >> Then  I Use revbrowserGet  selected put the contents into myvariable
and
> paste it into a field  (using  :set   the htmltext of field myfield  to
myvariable)
> >> the problem is that all the return characters disappears
> >>
> >> Even  if  i copy  manually the text  and paste it directly in a field i
get the same
> thing
> >> If I copy the text manually and paste it into a Word processor software
it
> works fine   the return characters don't disappear
> >
> > You have not specified which platform, but try this test
> >
> > on checkReturns
> >   if the clipboardData contains numtochar(13) then
> >      answer "Found char 13, a return on a Mac"
> >   end if
> > if the clipboardData contains numtochar(10) then
> >      answer "Found char 10, a return in Rev/ Unix"
> >   end if
> > if the clipboardData contains CRLF then
> >      answer "Found char 1310, a return-line feed in Windows"
> >   end if
> > if the clipboardData contains "<br" then
> >      answer "Found <br"
> >   end if
> > if the clipboardData contains "<p" then
> >      answer "Found char <p"
> >   end if
> > end checkReturns
> >
> > Also, look up CRLF in the dictionary.
> > Another factor in Html is that the <br> may be a tag that is used to
create the
> effect of a return char on the web page.
> >
> > A word processor program is designed to do many conversions for the
user's
> convenience, such as clipboard conversions of text and graphics.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Jim Ault
> > Las Vegas
> >
> >
> >
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