Re: set the clipboard not available in in some apps (like Word)
Re: set the clipboard not available in in some apps (like Word)
- Subject: Re: set the clipboard not available in in some apps (like Word)
- From: Joseph Weaks <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:49:50 -0600
On Dec 13, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
...Unicode doesn't transfer from the system clipboard to Word's (I
expect
it's
still using an old-fashioned method of getting styles).
I am not queazy about calling this a bug! At best, it's incomplete and
poor Unicode implementation.
It's been confirmed by MS as a recently discovered bug. What's
happening is
this: legacy code in Word is looking just for 'TEXT' (plain text)
"flavor"
on the clipboard to see whether the clipboard's state is enabled or
not,...
If you wanted, you could get around this in a Studio app by using 'call
method' with NSPasteboard methods to get your text box or text field
data to
the clipboard, rather than 'set the clipboard'. I had to do that in
one of
my Studio apps in order to get attributed strings (colored formatted
text)
with graphics up there. There's a default for always including the
plain
text version, and that would trigger Word's clipboard check.
NSPasteboard
methods can get a bit complicated - and of course we're mostly using
Studio
so as not to have to learn all that Objective C stuff. But - not for
the
first time - it tends to work better...
This all makes complete sense. Maybe we should call it a half a bug
each. Thanks for your thoroughness, Paul.
I have been reading through the NSPasteboard class documentation and
have not yet been successful getting it to work in a call method
statement. I typically have little success figuring out the syntax for
these call methods.
I wonder if anyone can easily provide an example statement that sets a
variable of unicode text to the general pasteboard (ie. system
clipboard) in a way that includes a TEXT part along with the UTXT part.
Thanks again,
Joe Weaks
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