This is clearly closely related to the problem I had recently copying text from Livecode into Mac Mail. YES, Livecode should copy PLAIN text when you ask it to copy PLAIN unformatted text. That said,
Here’s the script that I ended up using that work for copying a list of tabbed data into Excel. It’s a little different than Brian’s which he sent to help my question (thanks again!). It works in both cases (Mail and Excel), and is set up to work on three platforms. Richard Burkett richard.burk...@sbcglobal.net <mailto:richard.burk...@sbcglobal.net> Here it is, as a version to copy text from a field in my test stack: on mouseUp put fld "myField" into tClip lock the clipBoard set the ClipboardData to empty set the ClipboardData to tClip put the clipboardData["text"] into tClip set the rawclipBoardData to empty if the platform is "MacOS" then set the rawClipboardData["public.utf8-plain-text"] \ to textEncode(tClip, "UTF-8" ) -- OSX else if the platform is "Linux" then set the rawClipboardData["text/plain;charset=utf-8"] \ to textEncode(tClip, "UTF-8" ) -- Linux else if the platform contains "Win" then set the rawClipboardData["CF_UNICODE"] \ to textEncode(tClip, "UTF-16" ) -- Windows end if unlock the clipBoard end mouseUp > From: "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com > <mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com>> > > On 2/3/18 12:23 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: >> Try this function (LC 8/9): >> >> *on* stripClipboard >> *local* tData >> *lock* the clipboard >> *put* the rawClipboardData["public.utf8-plain-text"] into tData >> *set* the rawClipboardData to empty >> *set* the rawClipboardData["public.utf8-plain-text"] to tData >> *unlock* the clipboard >> *end* stripClipboard >> >> This will ensure the only thing on the clipboard is the text format (no RTF >> and no HTML). Even when I use this function after putting the text on the >> clipboard, I get the same results. And I get the same in LC 6 & 7 too. >> >> You mentioned raw clipboard, what did you try there? > > Your handler works. :) I haven't used rawClipboardData much and I don't > have that particular experiment any more, but I think I just used the > example verbatim from the dictionary. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > <mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com> > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > <http://www.hyperactivesw.com/> _______________________________________________ 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