Sorry, forgot to change Subject in previous posting... Hi Richard
I found this problem was particularly annoying when trying to extract info from vCards exported from Contacts on the Mac, so I developed a tiny app in LC called vCardClipper. I've put together a web page about this app together with download links to a Mac App and the source code. Here's the link to this web page, help yourself: https://www.reid-it.co.uk/downloads/downvcclip.htm The key is to paste HTML format text into Mail replacing RETURN with "<br>" and replacing spaces with "&nbrsp;". The code is in the following handler (which is in the stack script): on loadClipboard pPlainText, pPasteMode -- pPasteMode: HTML or text set itemDelimiter to "." put item 1 of the version into tLCversion lock the clipboard if tLCversion >= "8" then -- for LC 8.x or later: set the fullClipboardData to empty switch pPasteMode case "HTML" put pPlainText into tHTMLtext replace return with "<br>" in tHTMLtext replace space with " " in tHTMLtext set the fullClipboardData["HTML"] to "<p>" & tHTMLtext & "</p>" break case "text" set the fullClipboardData["text"] to pPlainText break end switch else -- for LC 7.x or earlier: switch pPasteMode case "HTML" put pPlainText into tHTMLtext replace return with "<br>" in tHTMLtext replace space with " " in tHTMLtext set the clipboardData["HTML"] to "<p>" & tHTMLtext & "</p>" break case "text" set the clipboardData["text"] to pPlainText break end switch end if unlock the clipboard end loadClipboard Peter -- Peter Reid Loughborough, UK > On 10 Jan 2018, at 9:38am, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 10:09:51 -0800 > From: Richard Burkett <richard.burk...@sbcglobal.net> > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: Problem pasting from Livecode to Mac Mail > Message-ID: <bf402ecc-c11d-4526-82c2-b5267520d...@sbcglobal.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Does anyone have a solution to this problem: I set the clipboard in LiveCode > to the text of a field or variable that has returns after each line. When I > paste that into Mac Mail, the text appears double-spaced as if it has two > returns, but clearly there is just one (or a combination of CR and LF?). I?ve > tried all the keys for setting the clipboard and also writing a script to > delete line feeds, or CR characters, but nothing works. It?s either no > returns, or what appears to be double-spaced returns. > > If I paste the text first into Text Edit, then copy it, and paste into Mac > Mail it?s fine - single line spacing. What?s LiveCode adding to each line > that causes Mac Mail to show the pasted text as double spaced? Is there a way > to filter/remove that? > > Richard Burkett > richard.burk...@sbcglobal.net _______________________________________________ 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
