Right, Court. This works for copy-and-paste within my movie, and I got that
part working. But this won't help my users to copy text from some other app
and then paste it into my field. That's why I speak of the system
Clipboard. Or am I missing something? S.
At 05:10 PM 6/18/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>You may not need an xtra at all. Take a look at this:
>http://www.macromedia.com/support/director/ts/documents/copy_paste_examples.
>htm
>
>They are setting up a field that isn't displayed, but just in the cast and
>if both commandDown and keypressed = c then they grab the selectedtext and
>put it into that field.
>
>You could create a list of this info and write it to a file or send it to a
>cgi script or whatever.
>
> > Thanks, Buzz--but I still need to communicate with the system Clipboard.
> > For reasons I won't go into, I need to keep track of how many characters
> > are cut out of, or pasted into, my text members, and if provide trhe
> > cut-and-paste functions to the user by turning on Enable Editing Shortcuts,
> > I won't be able to monitor that information.
> >
> > If anyone knows of an Xtra that communicates with the system Clipboard,
> > please let me know.
> >
> > Slava
> >
> > At 12:14 AM 6/18/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >> As of Director 8, you can mark the 'Enable Edit Shortcuts' checkbox on the
> >> Movie tab of the Property Inspector.
> >> Then the standard shortcut keys can be used for cut/copy/paste within
> >> that movie after it's been projectorized or Shocked.
> >>
> >> hth
> >>
> >> -Buzz
> >>
> >> At 2:41 AM -0400 6/18/01, Slava Paperno wrote:
> >>> Is there an Xtra that provides communication with the system Clipboard,
> >>> under Mac OS and Windows? Something that would allow my user to copy to
> >>> the Clipboard some text from my projector's editable field, and also to
> >>> paste the contents of the system Clipboard to an editable field in a
> >>> projector? (I do know about Director's copyToClipboard(), and I did look
> >>> through everything at http://www.macromedia.com/software/xtras/director/
> >>> and searched DOUG. Didn't find anything.) Thanks!
> >>> Slava
> >>>
> >>>
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