How do I prevent text fields from accepting formated text?

makeshyft · Post by **makeshyft** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:01 pm

Hello Livecode geniuses

How do I prevent a text field from accepting html text ... with colors and bolds and etc..... when pasting into a field? I want plain text only.

Thanks,

FourthWorld · Post by **FourthWorld** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:41 pm

See the "clipboardData" property in the dictionary.

By default the "paste" command will preserve as much of the richness of pasted content as possible, but you can make more specific choices by obtaining the clipboardData contents directly.

The clipboardData is an array, which for text contains multiple forms accessed through its keys, including "htmlText" and simply "text".

To put only the unstyled text into a field:

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put the clipboardData["text"] into fld "MyField"

makeshyft · Post by **makeshyft** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:42 pm

Great....thanks Richard!

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:57 pm

Hi Tom,

sounds more like you wnat to prevent the user from PASTING styled text into a field, right?
In that case you can script a "on pastekey" (see dictionary) handler in your field, which removes the "styled" from the text

Hint:
This does NOT work in the IDE, only in the resulting standalone.
Obviously the IDE "catches" this by itself

Best

Klaus

makeshyft · Post by **makeshyft** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 12:18 am

Roger that! Thanks Klaus!

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