RTF or TXT

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 14:19:34 EDT 2014


On 04/10/14 09:05, Kay C Lan wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:
>> on mouseUp
>>      set the rtfText of fld 1 to the clipboardData["RTF"]
>> end mouseUp
>>
> That looks like a simple answer but there are two entries in the
> Dictionary under RTFText that might steer you in an ever so slightly
> different direction:
>
> Note: Unfortunately, OpenOffice does not have particularly good rtf
> import / export capabilities (it doesn't even round-trip correctly
> through itself!) and thus copying / pasting of lists between LiveCode
> and OpenOffice will not work reliably or correctly.

What document did you use for your test.

I wonder how OpenOffice racks up against LibreOffice, Kingsoft, 
ThinkFree and so on?

Richmond.





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