On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> OSX/Yosemite. > > I apparently selected the entire page by accident while selecting text to > cut and paste. > > I ended up with the entire page as an image when pasting into livecode. > > But I can't replicate it. This would be *really* useful . . . > > Even better would be converting it to fields, but . . .) > This has 'sorta' worked since RR 2.x 1) Select some text in a pdf and select Copy. 2) Go to LC and in an appropriate place* : put the clipboardData["text'] into fld 1 * an appropriate place might be a btn that has the above script in it or it could be in the field's script within a mouseEnter handler or whatever. I've just checked again and it still 'sorta' works in 7.0.3 and Mavericks. The 'sorta' is a problem with OS X not LC. Prior to Snow Leopard you could 'option select' text in a pdf and if there were columns of data they would be pasted into LC in the same column format. This was perfect. Unfortunately since Snow Leopard, and including every OS X / Preview / Reader combination ever since, the 'option select' no longer works. What happens is if there is any multi-column text it is reproduced sequentially - just find any two column pdf, select all, Copy and Paste it into TextEdit and you'll see the problem. HTH _______________________________________________ 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