At 9:07 PM -0400 9/8/01, Raymond E. Griffith wrote:
>Copying and pasting within the stack worked, but copying
>from SimpleText does not work.
>
>I just tried BBEdit 6.1 lite. Copying from that program and pasting into MC
>works. Also works with TexEdit.
It's just a guess, but that sounds like a problem with the way (I understand) the
clipboard works. SimpleText supports styled text; BBEdit, and I'm assuming TexEdit,
don't. So when you copy text from BBEdit, it copies only one thing: the text. When you
copy from SimpleText, it copies the text in two forms: both styled text and plain
text. The application you paste into is supposed to figure out what it can accept, and
use that.
I just tested out of AppleWorks, and even with text that has been styled, it works. It
only pastes the plain text, but it works. Cutting from SimpleText and pasting into
AppleWorks works, though. So does pasting into BBEdit, where it only handles plain
text. So maybe SimpleText is doing it strangely, and AppleWorks and BBEdit are able to
figure it out, but MetaCard for whatever reason doesn't.
regards,
Geoff
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