Okay, I missed that in the entry. That explains why the pasteKey message wasn't working.
I am all set now. Thank you. On 6/23/2018 5:15 PM, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote: > >From the dictionary: > > The LiveCode development environment traps the pasteKey message <>, unless > "Suspend LiveCode UI" is turned on in the Development menu. This means that > the pasteKeymessage <> is not received by a stack <> if it's running in the > development environment <>. > > So if you are trying to do this in the IDE, then that may be the reason it > will not work. > > Best regards > Tore Nilsen > >> 23. jun. 2018 kl. 22:32 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: >> >> Hey, Wow, it's the Richmond school of shovels and primitive stuff at its >> worst. >> >> If I have a field that conatins some styled text (let's call it "ff1"), and >> I want to shift it >> with its styling removed into another field (let's call it "ff2") then this >> does the trick in a button: >> >> onmouseUp >> gettheplainTextoffld "ff1" >> putit intofld "ff2" >> endmouseUp >> >> and that, oddly enough, might not be a bad place to get started. >> >> ALTHOUGH (ouch) this does NOT work: >> >> onpasteKey >> gettheplainTextoftheclipboardData >> putit intofld "ff2" >> endpasteKey >> >> and this does not work: >> >> onpasteKey >> puttheclipboardDataintofld "ff1" >> send"mouseUp" tobtn "Button" >> endpasteKey >> >> which would seem to suggest pasteKey is NOT trapping the paste signal at all. >> >> Richmond. >> >> >> On 23/6/2018 5:15 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: >>> Using LC9, I want to add a "paste without formatting" (as seen in may >>> browser edit menus) command and I can't see to figure out how to do it. >>> >>> My most recent attempt of many still pastes formatted text (with >>> underlining, bolding, italics, fonts, colors, etc. in place) >>> >>> *on*pasteKey *-- remove formatting* >>> *if* theclipboardData["text"] isnotempty*then* >>> *set*thetextofthetemplateFieldtoclipboardData["text"] >>> *set*theclipboardDatatoempty >>> *set*theclipboardData["text"] totheplaintextofthetemplateField >>> *end* *if* >>> *paste* >>> *end*pasteKey >>> >>> Maybe I just haven't had enough Caffeine yet? >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
