Thanks Richard, that probably explains it. There are style runs in the TextEdit text (and not, say, in Atom or some other editor). It was just odd to me because I think (quite simplistically) of text being text and not expecting them to have style runs, but of course they can. This also began because not only could I not change my text, someone else previously had this problem and eventually fixed it by deleting the fields and starting over (https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=32727 <https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=32727>). I now suspect it may have been style runs in their text as well. I don’t tend to run into this sort of problem because I’m rarely concerned with the style of text, but in this particular case I actually did want to change the font size and color and couldn’t, and that had me puzzled. Ok good, I think you've solved this. Thanks for weighing in.
Mark > On Apr 29, 2021, at 5:18 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Mark Smith wrote: > > > here’s an odd pasting issue I ran into the other day. To cut to the > > chase, basically I can make a field become unmodifiable with respect > > to TEXT parameters (excluding align) by pasting anything from Apples > > TextEdit tool into the field. > > By what means were you attempting to modify the text styles? > > If you modify the text styling properties of the field object itself, > remember that style runs within the field will override those. > > You could have your script paste with putting the clipboardData["text"] into > the selection, and you can strip style runs to inherit field properties with > "put fld X into fld X". > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
