Thanks Rory and Stephen, works fine now. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Posey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Delphi-Talk Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 2:03 PM Subject: Re: Past To TEdit Control
> Rory Daulton wrote: > > > Whitehat, > > > > > >>I want to paste text data from the clipboard to a TEdit control. > >>Most of the time the data is a single line but sometimes it > >>consists of two or three lines. In these cases I only get the > >>first line. I'd like to concatenate the lines to make a single > >>line so I get all of the data. I'd replace the carriage return > >>linefeed pair with a semicolon and space. What's the best way > >>to handle this? > > > > > > I haven't tried it, but could you simply copy the Clipboard's contents to a > > string (using TClipBoard.AsText), do a search-and-replace on it (using ???), > > then use the new string to simulate a paste (using TEdit.SelText)? > > Oooh, good point about using SelText rather than Text, in case > not the entire text is selected in the Edit. > > Stephen Posey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
