the Clipboard ... is a single entity.
It works for me to & from external apps.
As for the number of chars, you can count those before & after ...
-Buzz
At 6:29 PM -0400 6/18/01, Slava Paperno wrote:
>Right, Court. This works for copy-and-paste within my movie, and I
>got that part working. Bu
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 wr
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
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 w
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?
