ClipboardData

Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel skip at magicgate.com
Wed May 15 09:31:36 EDT 2013


Just an FYI, there are other spaces scattered throughout the lines of text,
however only some of them show up when pasting from clipboard in LC.

SKIP


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <
skip at magicgate.com> wrote:

> Okay... ran that and no sign of ASCII 32 there... just the next character.
>
> SKIP
>
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:58 AM, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>>
>> Run this, maybe in a button and with your text already in the
>> clipBoardData:
>>
>>
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>   repeat with y = 1 to 20 --there surely must be a few "spaces" in that
>> many chars
>>     put char y of the clipBoardData & ":" && charToNum(char y of the
>> clipBoardData) into line y of fld "resultField"
>>
>>   end repeat
>> end mouseUp
>>
>>
>> Of course you also need a field named "resultField"
>>
>>
>> See the chars and their ASCII values in list form. Look for values of 32
>> where a space ought to be. If there is never any such value, then something
>> very strange is going on, since the space has to be there somewhere, or it
>> would not show in your other venues.
>>
>>
>> Craig Newman
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <skip at magicgate.com>
>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
>> Sent: Wed, May 15, 2013 8:11 am
>> Subject: Re: ClipboardData
>>
>>
>> Craig, can you think of a good way to do/test that?
>>
>> SKIP
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:13 PM, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> >
>> > But that means the space char had to have been present in the original.
>> > Let's say your spaceless text was:
>> >
>> >
>> > "Onetwothree..."
>> >
>> >
>> > Can you find out what the 4th char in this string is? Is it a "t", or
>> > ASCII 32?
>> >
>> >
>> > Craig Newman
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <skip at magicgate.com>
>> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
>> > Sent: Tue, May 14, 2013 6:09 pm
>> > Subject: Re: ClipboardData
>> >
>> >
>> > Phil, I tried your method and then took a look at _temp_ and the result
>> was
>> > the same.
>> >
>> > Craig, If I paste my clipboard into Notepad or any other text based
>> > application, it translates over properly... just not in LC.  I am using
>> > 5.5.4
>> >
>> > SKIP
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:00 PM, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Yipes.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Can you dig in and see if there is any char at all where the space
>> ought
>> > > to have been. In other words, is that "space" empty?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Craig Newman
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <skip at magicgate.com>
>> > > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
>> > > Sent: Tue, May 14, 2013 3:05 pm
>> > > Subject: ClipboardData
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > 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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