styledtext, mixed content and clipboarddata

[richmond62]

Well . . .
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Does NOT work properly with:

1. BOLD text.

2. Sized text.

[richmond62]

Blast . . .
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STILL having problems with BOLD and SIZED.
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I wonder why BOLD is being reported as "mixed"?
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[richmond62]

OK, OK, Happy Campers . . . IFF you are still keeping the faith with me . . .

1. BOLD:

I had set the word 'stout' to bold from the MenuBar:
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and setting text to "bold" like this is reported by LiveCode as "mixed" (which is badly inconsistent).

If, instead of this, a word is set to bold this way:
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it is reported by LiveCode as "bold".

[richmond62]

2. textSize . . . bad case of my Sunday morning stupidity, because textSize
is textSize, and NOT textStyle.
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[richmond62]

HOWEVER . . .

This is NOT useful in any way whatsoever for importing styled text from the clipboard that
originated outwith LiveCode.

AND, as one can just do this sort of thing:

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set the styledText of fld 2 to the styledText of fld 1

this whole exercise has been "one of those pointless exercises Richmond is extremely good at doing."

[richmond62]

After considerably more mucking about what has become clear is that the Macintosh clipboard
does NOT copy text styles between apps, BUT is does copy colours.
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[stam]

After considerably more mucking about what has become clear is that the Macintosh clipboard
does NOT copy text styles between apps, BUT is does copy colours.

Errrr... no. That statement is wrong/nonsensical.

The mac clipboard most certainly copy/pastes both styles and colours between apps.
Not sure what you're doing... see the the pic below where text created and styled/coloured in textEdit is pasted into Pages.app AND into an LC field, preserving both styles and colour on each paste.

[richmond62]

Errrr... no. That statement is wrong/nonsensical.

'nonsensical' may be subjective:

Copying from LibreOffice (as per my picture) did NOT bring BOLD across.

I shall try again . . . results on their way:
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1. No Italic.
2. No Bold.
3. No HyperLink.
4. No Size.
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So (this should be fun),
can you explain why there is a difference between what you are getting and what I am getting?

[FourthWorld]

Rodney, as an experimental control have you considered trying the copy command?

[stam]

Nope, not really that fun at all if i'm honest...

'nonsensical' may be subjective:

It is nonsensical because a) that doesn't happen and b) do you really think Apple would allow this to be the case.

Copying from LibreOffice (as per my picture) did NOT bring BOLD across.

And that is your answer. It must be LibreOffice not copying stuff correctly, not the "mac clipboard"

Why don't you try TextEdit, which is installed on all macs and see what results you get?

S.

[stam]

Rodney, as an experimental control have you considered trying the copy command?

this still has the issue reported above.

if you use

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copy field 1

it doesn't paste any text (presumably because it copies the object, not the text).

if you use

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copy char 1 to -1 of field 1

then the issue is as per my previous post:

The only solution to Rodney's problem i can see is to specifically define the text style of the non-link text as 'plain' - then it pastes plain text with the link formatted as a link.

[richmond62]

OK, 'darling', TextEdit it is:
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Pasting from LibreOffice to TextEdit works 100%
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Pasting from TextEdit into LiveCode works 100%

So, what in the name of @#$%^&! is happening between LibreOffice and LiveCode without
an intermediate (TextEdit) stage?

Whichever way you shuffle your cards (nonsensically or sensibly ), that should
make us think as, for the sake of argument, a developer has no way whatsoever of knowing
where an end-user is going to copy text from to paste into a LiveCode field.

[stam]

Probably just advise not to use LibreOffice on Mac then.

[richmond62]

Copies from LibreOffice into NeoOffice 100%:
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Copies from NeoOffice to LiveCode WITHOUT bold:
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and, at that point, I will remind you what my late father told me his favourite hobby was:

Banging my head against the wall.

and why?

Because it feels great when it stops.

[richmond62]

You are going to "T-off" quite a few clients if you issue them with a long advisory list.

Noli me tangere.