ClipboardData

[Phil Davis]

Hi Skip,

If you're using LC 5.5 or better, have you considered processing the 
styledText of the field after the paste instead of the clipboardData 
before the paste? I found this makes it possible to do pretty much 
whatever you need to do. I recently created a field behavior script that 
allows you (or my client's customers actually) to paste Arabic text into 
a field and have it wrap and do line breaks correctly! (I hope to 
release a version of it to the community soon)

You would have to do something like this:

lock screen
create inv fld "_temp_"
set the unicodeText of fld "_temp_" to the clipboardData["unicode"]
put the styledText of fld "_temp_" into tMyTextA
delete field "_temp_"
-- and now process the 'tMyTextA' array

Food for thought -
Phil Davis


On 5/14/13 12:04 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote:
> I have used clipboarddata for many project in the past.  Today I was trying
> to process a clipboard selection that came from a Word 2003 document and it
> did not preserve any of the spaces.  I have used the format of "text",
> "html", "rtf"..... actually tried all the available options.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> SKIP
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Phil Davis