Copying from MS word into RunRev 4.0

Jonathan Lynch jonathandlynch at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 15:26:26 EDT 2011


I see what you are saying.

I just tried the following:
*

on* mouseUp

*put* the clipboarddata["html"] into tHTML

*put* the number of chars in tHTML & linefeed & tHTML into field "feedback"
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end* mouseUp
The output of this script is the following:

7

<p></p>

"<p></p>" contains 7 characters, which is what the output counted. If there
were hidden characters that did not show up in the field, then the character
count should have been higher.

I think MS Word does something funny with copying - very annoying.


On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Keith Clarke <
keith.clarke at clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm confused, how do you know the characters are missing until you paste
> the clipboard contents somewhere within LC to render them and see them?
>
> If you 'test' by rendering any formatted text into a field, you get the
> field's behaviour of partial interpretation of some text formatting in your
> test data. However, if you test by rendering into a custom property (or
> file) you will not get the field's artefacts added to the clipboard data.
>
> I hope that helps.
> Best,
> Keith..
>
>
> On 2 Sep 2011, at 19:59, Jonathan Lynch wrote:
>
> > Hi Keith,
> >
> > The characters are entitely absent from the clipboarddata["html"] and
> every
> > other element of the clipboard array.
> >
> > Are there other means of accessing the clipboard besides using the
> > clipboarddata or paste operations?
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Keith Clarke <
> > keith.clarke at clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> It might be worth avoiding pasting into an LC field (LC fields can be
> >> awkward when working with formatted text such as HTML/XML as they
> interpret
> >> some tags). It might be worth an experiment to
> >> 1) paste the clipboard contents into an LC variable, instead of a field
> >> 2) set custom property to the variable and then
> >> 3) view the custom property in the Property inspector - to see if you
> get
> >> any characters or blanks
> >>
> >> That way you'd know if the problem is with the LC paste function (a
> >> potential engine bug) or simply a field rendering one (a problem I get
> with
> >> HTML and XML tags all the time).
> >> Best,
> >> Keith..
> >>
> >> On 2 Sep 2011, at 18:51, Jonathan Lynch wrote:
> >>
> >>> I just tried it, but no success.
> >>>
> >>> I copied a bunch of apostrophes from Word, and used a button that puts
> >> the
> >>> clipboarddata["html"] into a field. All the field shows is "<p></p>" -
> >> all
> >>> of the apostrophes were omitted, even though I can paste them into
> >> Notepad.
> >>>
> >>> Do you have any other suggestions? I will try them all.
> >>>
> >>> Unfortunately, all elements in the clipboarddata array do not have the
> >>> missing characters - I tried them.
> >>>
> >>> I just worked out a technique using VBScript and IE rather than Word,
> and
> >> it
> >>> works fine, but is no faster than the method I was using with Word.
> >>>
> >>> Are there any externals available that might be useful?
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 1:10 PM, J. Landman Gay <
> jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 9/2/11 10:21 AM, Jonathan Lynch wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi everyone.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> When I type this word into MS Word: it's
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Then copy and paste it into a field in RunRev, the apostrophe gets
> >>>>> omitted.
> >>>>> This is on a windows system. The character in question is not the
> usual
> >>>>> apostrophe, but is the curly apostrophe that MS Word uses.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I haven't tried it, but it might be possible to trap the pasteKey
> >> message
> >>>> and instead of pasting directly, set the htmltext of the selection to
> >> the
> >>>> clipboard["html"]. Maybe Word inserts character entities that LiveCode
> >> can
> >>>> read.
> >>
> >>
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