Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[hh via use-livecode]

> JLG wrote:
> Actually, you could extract the text and write it into an html table in any 
> version of LC. Then set the clipboardData["html"] to it.
> 
> It would only paste into apps that accept html of course.

Unfortunately no. The  clipboardData["html"] is LC htmltext, which doesn't
support .
This is the same with fullClipboardData ["htmltext"] in LC 8 or later.
What works with a  object are in LC 8 or later both:

the fullClipboardData ["html"]
the rawClipboardData ["public.html"]


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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[J. Landman Gay via use-livecode]

Actually, you could extract the text and write it into an html table in any 
version of LC. Then set the clipboardData["html"] to it.


It would only paste into apps that accept html of course.
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On December 8, 2017 3:27:10 PM hh via use-livecode 
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JLG wrote:
In that case, others who have responded are right. You
can't put that  into the clipboard except as an image.


The impact is (what I wrote): You can't put that into the
**LC 6** - clipboard.

Of course we can do that in LC 8 or later by accessing the
*raw* clipboard. That is:
Put the contents of the grid of simple text fields into
a HTML  object. Then write clean HTML data with that
to the rawClipboardData, go to Pages, OpenOffice, Word or
whatever and paste.


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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[hh via use-livecode]

> JLG wrote:
> In that case, others who have responded are right. You
> can't put that  into the clipboard except as an image.

The impact is (what I wrote): You can't put that into the
**LC 6** - clipboard.

Of course we can do that in LC 8 or later by accessing the
*raw* clipboard. That is:
Put the contents of the grid of simple text fields into
a HTML  object. Then write clean HTML data with that
to the rawClipboardData, go to Pages, OpenOffice, Word or
whatever and paste.


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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[Jim Lambert via use-livecode]

Jacque's suggestion for PDF printing is excellent. That will get you a file.
But you mentioned you want this to end up on the clipboard for pasting into 
other programs.

> Dunbarx wrote:
> I did a quick test using the "import snapshot" command, and pasted the
> result into another app. It seems to have the same resolution as the img in
> the LC stack. You cannot improve that without a lot of doctoring, of course,
> because that is the resolution of the source.
Well, the relatively new ‘at size’ addition to snapshot might help here.

Charles, try something like this:

An area of your card holds the fields you want to copy. Put that rect of that 
area into variable myFieldRects
Calculate the width of that rect and place it into variable myRectWidth
Calculate the height of that rect and place it into variable myRectHeight

Now here is where improving the resolution comes in. By using the ‘at size’ 
parameter you can essentially ‘enlarge' the image you capture.
Just put amount of the enlargement you want into variable multiplier.
Let’s say 10 times.
So altogether we have:
Put "20,100,700,150" into myFieldRects

Put 680 into myRectWidth

Put 50 into myRectHeight

put 10 into multiplier

put the windowID of this stack into winID

export snapshot from rect(myFieldRects) of window winID at size (myRectWidth * 
multiplier),(myRectHeight * multiplier) to myimg as JPEG

set clipboarddata["image"] to myimg

Paste into, say, a Word doc.

Now change multiplier to 1 - that will give you an ‘unbenlarged’ image.
Now paste that into the same Word doc and look closely at the difference in 
resolution.

You could try 'as PNG', too.

Jim Lambert
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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[dunbarx via use-livecode]

But the OP wants everything in the clipboard, so he can paste away.

I suppose that the target apps might have a feature to import pdf's as a
menu command, but that would require scaling and who knows what else.

Craig



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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[J. Landman Gay via use-livecode]

On 12/8/17 12:30 PM, Charles Szasz via use-livecode wrote:

Hi Jacque,

I want to duplicate the borders of the fields in copying the fields to the 
clipboard.


In that case, others who have responded are right. You can't put that 
into the clipboard except as an image.


You could instead use the "print card" command to print to a PDF. That 
will render the text with real fonts that print and scale smoothly, and 
will also include the field borders. If you don't want to print the 
entire card, use the parameters that print only within a specified 
rectangle.


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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[dunbarx via use-livecode]

"I want to duplicate the borders of the fields in copying the fields to the
clipboard. "

Right, so you need an image, not any sort of text wizardry.

I did a quick test using the "import snapshot" command, and pasted the
result into another app. It seems to have the same resolution as the img in
the LC stack. You cannot improve that without a lot of doctoring, of course,
because that is the resolution of the source.

But not sharp enough? But then the stack itself also is not adequate? In
other words, if the native LC rendering is not good enough, then I cannot
see that you can use LC in the first place.

Craig



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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[Charles Szasz via use-livecode]

Hi Jacque,

I want to duplicate the borders of the fields in copying the fields to the 
clipboard. 

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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[J. Landman Gay via use-livecode]

Looking at the responses so far, I think the confusion is whether you only 
want to extract the text from the fields, or whether you want to duplicate 
the field borders as well in order to reproduce the appearance of a grid 
with gridlines.


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On December 8, 2017 8:53:35 AM Charles Szasz via use-livecode 
 wrote:


I have 14 fields for subtest names named test1, test2, test3,..test14 and 
another 14 fields for scores named score1, score2, score3,..score14.  They 
are all associated with different tests. Some tests will have all 14 
subtests and scores while others will have only have one subtest and one 
score.  The test names and scores are all the same length.


I greatly appreciate your willingness to help me.  I have been dealing with 
this problem for a month or so.  If you need more information, please let 
me know.


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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[Charles Szasz via use-livecode]

David,

I think your programming approach is a good idea and may be the solution to my 
problem.  Do you have a sample stack you could send me to look at?

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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[dunbarx via use-livecode]

"This is why I was trying to utilize the clipboard using text directly rather
than a graphic. "

Not understanding (again). How would you reproduce the physical fields as
any form of text?

That is how I started, with the field data, which I see now was not what you
wanted.

Craig



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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[David V Glasgow via use-livecode]

Hello Charles,

I very often have to manipulate psychological test and subtest scores in LC 
that have to be exported in different formats.  It is difficult to be sure I 
understand what you are trying to do, but I will say that I find the following 
the approach is one that suits me:

• I store item numbers which contribute to sub scale scores in a custom 
property of a field that contains the sub scale score.  Sometimes 2 properties 
if some items are reverse scored.  Very easy then to step through any number of 
sub scale fields with a generic script which will populate each with the 
correct result.  I like to use custom properties because they are easier to 
check and change than if they are buried in a script.  

• I write several ‘harvest' routines to gather the data from scored up test and 
subtest fields, and store the results as a tab delimited  table in an ordinary 
LC field, in whatever format is required. (by ‘format’ I mean 1 case per line, 
or rows and columns for each case, not digital ‘formats’)  The contents of that 
field can then be printed, copied to the clipboard or exported as a file. 

With only 14 fields, it will be very quick once you have gone through the 
drudgery of writing the ‘data harvest’ scripts.

Am I on the right lines?

Best wishes,

David Glasgow




> On 8 Dec 2017, at 2:51 pm, Charles Szasz via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> I have 14 fields for subtest names named test1, test2, test3,..test14 and 
> another 14 fields for scores named score1, score2, score3,..score14.  They 
> are all associated with different tests. Some tests will have all 14 subtests 
> and scores while others will have only have one subtest and one score.  The 
> test names and scores are all the same length. 
> 
> I greatly appreciate your willingness to help me.  I have been dealing with 
> this problem for a month or so.  If you need more information, please let me 
> know.  
> 
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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[Charles Szasz via use-livecode]

Craig,

I have tried the method you suggested.  It does yield decent results but I was 
hoping for better quality.  This is why I was trying to utilize the clipboard 
using text directly rather than a graphic. 

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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[dunbarx via use-livecode]

Sorry, I meant "import snapshot".

Try this, and read the dictionary to set it up the way you want, likely from
a rect. The resulting img control can then be placed into the clipboard.
Quality should be pretty good.

Craig



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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[Charles Szasz via use-livecode]

I am only using export snapshot as a “last resort” due to the quality of the 
graphic it creates.  

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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[Charles Szasz via use-livecode]

Dunbar,  I tried using screenshots but they are graphic and lack the quality 
you would want. 

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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[Charles Szasz via use-livecode]

I have 14 fields for subtest names named test1, test2, test3,..test14 and 
another 14 fields for scores named score1, score2, score3,..score14.  They are 
all associated with different tests. Some tests will have all 14 subtests and 
scores while others will have only have one subtest and one score.  The test 
names and scores are all the same length. 

I greatly appreciate your willingness to help me.  I have been dealing with 
this problem for a month or so.  If you need more information, please let me 
know.  

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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[dunbarx via use-livecode]

Does the "export snapshot" command do what you want? That is an old gadget.

Craig



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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[dunbarx via use-livecode]

Ah. Hmmm.

Do i understand you want to take a "picture" of your existing field array,
and place that in the clipboard?



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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[dunbarx via use-livecode]

Easy, if I understand what you are asking.

So do you have pairs of fields, each pair a "name" and a "score"? Something
like:

name1, score1
name2, score2
etc.

??

Are these pairs of fields associated with each other in the way I assumed,
that is, by their names, or in some other way?

In any case, they have to be associated in some way or another, and you
would write a repeat loop that examines each field pair, and collect their
contents in a variable, with the accumulated data delimited in some manner.
Then set the clipBoardData to that variable.

If you explain just a little more what you actually have built, I can write
an example handler to do what you want. I think.

Whatever comes out of this, the version of LC is not an issue.

Craig





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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[hh via use-livecode]

There is no way to do that with the *LC 6* clipboard.
But, assuming you are on Mac, you could ...

... (1) 'code' the fields into a html table (no need to display that
in LC). This is not too hard when using merge.

... (2) Then write that to a temporary html file
put myHTMLCode into url("file:///Users/admin/Desktop/tmp.html")

... (3) Then
get shell("textutil -convert doc /Users/admin/Desktop/tmp.html).

This generates a correct Word-file tmp.doc in the same folder.
This file can be read in by Word or Pages or even TextEdit.

(1)-(3) could go into one 'export to doc' script = one click.

[TextEdit can also open directly the HTML file and then you could
save as word document (use cmd+opt+shift S). With the same result,
TextEdit uses internally textutil for that.]

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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[Charles Szasz via use-livecode]

Thanks for responding to my LC problem. The fields have their showBorder set to 
true.  There are 14 test name fields and 14 score fields.  The fields are coded 
to be visible when they have content.  I am not using a dataGrid.  How do code 
to these many fields to the clipboard?

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Re: Copying text in boxes to clipboard

[dunbarx via use-livecode]

A table made up of boxes?

Are thee boxes individual fields? Or are they the "cells" that comprise
table fields or dataGrids?

In either case, or in any case at all, one can place the data in those boxes
onto the clipboard by setting the clipbardData to the text of those, er,
boxes. This either all at once in one line, if a table field or DG, or in a
handful of lines under script control if disparate containers.

But what do you have going here?

Craig Newman



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