Message Box Input - plain text

[willcate]

This is a small thing, but I wish that any text which got pasted into Message Box's input field was automatically converted to plain text. If I paste something in from, say, the web, or a white-on-black code editor, then I can't read what I've pasted into Message. It's a pain! Wouldn't this be an easy thing to fix?

Thanks for reading; I'm new to the forum, but not to LiveCloud, been loving it for years. -- WC

[Simon]

Hi WC,
Welcome to the forum!

I'm with you on this but more with the Contents of a field.
Any formatted text will hold the format, but that is probably so embedded in liveCode (or Hyper-card) users that it's seen as a benefit.

Simon

[dunbarx]

Hi.

It would be possible to modify the script of the message box. It is only a mortal stack, after all. But this is not for the faint-hearted. There are layers of complexity in that little gadget.

Would you be amenable to managing this outside? Like setting up a functionKey that:

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 set the clipboardData to  the clipBoardData["text"]

Something like that, where you simply press a key to transform styled text to plain text, so when you paste, it is in plain style?

Craig Newman

[Simon]

Nice one, Craig!

Simon

[Klaus]

You could also use menu: Edit -> Paste unformatted resp. the appropriate keyboard shortcut

[Simon]

Wow.
And it has been there all the time.
Four fingers... Really?

Simon

[Klaus]

Four fingers... Really?

Yep, just like in e.g. TextEdit on OS X!