Problem pasting from Livecode to Mac Mail

[Peter Reid]

Sorry, forgot to change Subject in previous posting...

Hi Richard

I found this problem was particularly annoying when trying to extract info from vCards exported from Contacts on the Mac, so I developed a tiny app in LC called vCardClipper.

I've put together a web page about this app together with download links to a Mac App and the source code.  Here's the link to this web page, help yourself:

https://www.reid-it.co.uk/downloads/downvcclip.htm

The key is to paste HTML format text into Mail replacing RETURN with "<br>" and replacing spaces with "&nbrsp;". The code is in the following handler (which is in the stack script):

on loadClipboard pPlainText, pPasteMode
   -- pPasteMode: HTML or text
   set itemDelimiter to "."
   put item 1 of the version into tLCversion
   lock the clipboard
   if tLCversion >= "8" then
      -- for LC 8.x or later:
      set the fullClipboardData to empty
      switch pPasteMode
         case "HTML"
            put pPlainText into tHTMLtext
            replace return with "<br>" in tHTMLtext
            replace space with " " in tHTMLtext
            set the fullClipboardData["HTML"] to "<p>" & tHTMLtext & "</p>"
            break
         case "text"
            set the fullClipboardData["text"] to pPlainText
            break
      end switch
   else
      -- for LC 7.x or earlier:
      switch pPasteMode
         case "HTML"
            put pPlainText into tHTMLtext
            replace return with "<br>" in tHTMLtext
            replace space with " " in tHTMLtext
            set the clipboardData["HTML"] to "<p>" & tHTMLtext & "</p>"
            break
         case "text"
            set the clipboardData["text"] to pPlainText
            break
      end switch
   end if
   unlock the clipboard
end loadClipboard


Peter
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Peter Reid
Loughborough, UK

> On 10 Jan 2018, at 9:38am, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 10:09:51 -0800
> From: Richard Burkett <richard.burkett at sbcglobal.net>
> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Problem pasting from Livecode to Mac Mail
> Message-ID: <BF402ECC-C11D-4526-82C2-B5267520D414 at sbcglobal.net>
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> 
> Does anyone have a solution to this problem: I set the clipboard in LiveCode to the text of a field or variable that has returns after each line. When I paste that into Mac Mail, the text appears double-spaced as if it has two returns, but clearly there is just one (or a combination of CR and LF?). I?ve tried all the keys for setting the clipboard and also writing a script to delete line feeds, or CR characters, but nothing works. It?s either no returns, or what appears to be double-spaced returns. 
> 
> If I paste the text first into Text Edit, then copy it, and paste into Mac Mail it?s fine - single line spacing. What?s LiveCode adding to each line that causes Mac Mail to show the pasted text as double spaced? Is there a way to filter/remove that?
> 
> Richard Burkett
> richard.burkett at sbcglobal.net