I think you still have Razzak copy to clipboard. I used a similar eep and loaded a temp table with clipboard rows of clips. Unknown to the user as they clicked it was grabbing (copy/pasting) info and loading it all into a table for me. I then put it all together and made a var from that table using all the rows that they could paste into a program outside of RBase. It made all much happier people. A bit weird!
Sincerely, Paul You might recall a old post about me trying to parse multi clipboard items. That above was my answer. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MikeB Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 5:59 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: combine two blocks of RTF formatted VARCHAR data I am thinking that you might employ a "hidden" variable RichEdit control to hold your lookup value, then copy its' contents to clipboard, then on to the destination control. Untested, but it seems like it should work. ----- Original Message ----- From: "MDRD" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 5:31 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: combine two blocks of RTF formatted VARCHAR data > Mike > > I was thinking about the Clipboard too, but we do not want to physically > see > the lookup text. Just load it into a var or copy to the clipboard. > > If Set Clipboard = Varchar in Table where.... would keep the format or > maybe if there was a RTFvarchar Variable that would keep the format and > allowed > SRPL > > Just thinking over my head again. > > Thanks > Marc > If I stumble across something I will pass it on > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "MikeB" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:47 PM > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: combine two blocks of RTF formatted VARCHAR data > >> I am pretty sure you can copy and paste from one Richedit to another and >> get the desired results (at least it works in wordpad which is built >> around the Microsoft RichEdit control which is the control we use in >> RBase, more or less). >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "MDRD" <[email protected]> >> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 4:37 PM >> Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: combine two blocks of RTF formatted VARCHAR data >> >> >>> Thanks Mike >>> >>> I am sorry to hear that, it would really help what I am trying to do. >>> >>> Maybe I can find a way around this? >>> >>> Thanks again >>> Marc >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> From: "MikeB" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:18 PM >>> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> >>> Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: combine two blocks of RTF formatted VARCHAR >>> data >>> >>>> AFAIK, You can't do that with RTF. It's not an RBase issue either. >>>> >>>> If you will just write two files with one word of formatted text in >>>> each and save them, then open both of the RTF files in a text editor >>>> like notepad and you will see why you can't combine them that way. >>>> >>>> Rich text is just a markup language like HTML, so the effect is the >>>> same as concantenating two complete HTML files together which combines >>>> the description of two complete pages in one file, making it unreadable >>>> to the engine that parses the text. >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "MDRD" <[email protected]> >>>> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 2:45 PM >>>> Subject: [RBASE-L] - combine two blocks of RTF formatted VARCHAR data >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I am trying to look up a block of formatted Varchar data from one table >>>> then >>>> Update a Varchar column in another table that has formatted text. >>>> >>>> First I >>>> Set Var VLookupText Varchar = Lookuptext In Table Where ... >>>> The data is something like this >>>> Instructions >>>> Be sure to do this and that >>>> Warning, do not play in traffic >>>> >>>> Then >>>> Set Var VcurrentText Varchar = CurrentText in CurrentTable Where .... >>>> Set Var VNewText = (.VLookupText + .VcurrentText) >>>> Update CurrentTable Set CurrentCol = .VNewText Where ..... >>>> >>>> It seems that the formatted text turns into this in the Var and then >>>> the update fails. >>>> {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil MS Sans >>>> Serif;}{\f1\fnil\fcharset0 MS Sans Serif;}} >>>> \viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang1033\f0\fs16 >>>> \par >>>> >>>> >>>> I am sure there is a simple solution and I am ready for egg on my face. >>>> please make then scrambled, not over easy! >>>> Thanks >>>> Marc >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
