Pasting to Powerpoint

[stephen barncard]

I made this dumb stack to view all elements of the clipboard contents...
works inter-app

type

go URL "http://fulton.barncard.com/stax/clipboardTest.rev"


in msg box.


hth,


sqb


ps the hex display displays incorrectly at the moment. Probably the changes
to unicorn.

Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA -
mixstream.org

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 4:21 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:

> Excellent! Thank you. I'll try it.
>
>
> On 10/13/16 5:18 PM, hh wrote:
>
>> Sadly this may depend more on user's OS than on the LC version or
>> your compiling OS.
>> I had a similar issue with pasting to Mail on Mac OS > 10.10. This
>> disappeared when I used the rawClipboardData[key] (exactly to such
>> "plainText"-encodings there is an example for different platforms).
>>
>> Jacqueline L.G. wrote:
>>> Apparently in LC 8.x, LC text in the clipboard can't be
>>> pasted into Powerpoint, though it works in MS Word and
>>> some other apps. I know the workaround -- paste into a
>>> text editor, copy, paste into Powerpoint -- but is there
>>> a better way?
>>> My app is just setting the clipboarddata["text"] to a
>>> variable containing plain text. I wonder if I should be
>>> setting some of the other keys in the clipboard array.
>>>  It worked okay until the last version we released,
>>> compiled with LC 8.0.2 on Mac OS X. Maybe it's been
>>> fixed since then? I don't have a copy of Powerpoint
>>> so I can't test.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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