the Clipboard ... is a single entity.
It works for me to & from external apps.
As for the number of chars, you can count those before & after ...
-Buzz
At 6:29 PM -0400 6/18/01, Slava Paperno wrote:
>Right, Court. This works for copy-and-paste within my movie, and I
>got that part working. But this won't help my users to copy text
>from some other app and then paste it into my field. That's why I
>speak of the system Clipboard. Or am I missing something? S.
>
>At 05:10 PM 6/18/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>>You may not need an xtra at all. Take a look at this:
>>http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/copy_paste_examples.
>>htm
>>
>>They are setting up a field that isn't displayed, but just in the cast and
>>if both commandDown and keypressed = c then they grab the selectedtext and
>>put it into that field.
>>
>>You could create a list of this info and write it to a file or send it to a
>>cgi script or whatever.
>>
>>> Thanks, Buzz--but I still need to communicate with the system Clipboard.
>>> For reasons I won't go into, I need to keep track of how many characters
>>> are cut out of, or pasted into, my text members, and if provide trhe
>>> cut-and-paste functions to the user by turning on Enable Editing Shortcuts,
>>> I won't be able to monitor that information.
>>>
>>> If anyone knows of an Xtra that communicates with the system Clipboard,
>>> please let me know.
>>>
>>> Slava
>>>
>>> At 12:14 AM 6/18/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>>>> As of Director 8, you can mark the 'Enable Edit Shortcuts' checkbox on the
>>>> Movie tab of the Property Inspector.
>>>> Then the standard shortcut keys can be used for cut/copy/paste within
>>>> that movie after it's been projectorized or Shocked.
>>>>
>>>> hth
>>>>
>>>> -Buzz
>>>>
>>>> At 2:41 AM -0400 6/18/01, Slava Paperno wrote:
>>>>> Is there an Xtra that provides communication with the system Clipboard,
>>>>> under Mac OS and Windows? Something that would allow my user to copy to
>>>>> the Clipboard some text from my projector's editable field, and also to
>>>>> paste the contents of the system Clipboard to an editable field in a
>>>>> projector? (I do know about Director's copyToClipboard(), and I did look
>>>>> through everything at http://www.macromedia.com/software/xtras/director/
>>>>> and searched DOUG. Didn't find anything.) Thanks!
>>>>> Slava
>>>>>
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