Re: How to get selected text in a WebView
Re: How to get selected text in a WebView
- Subject: Re: How to get selected text in a WebView
- From: "Gary L. Wade" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:44:52 -0700
- Thread-topic: How to get selected text in a WebView
Was there a problem with what dr.text or [dr toString] returned after your
first line?
On 10/04/2010 12:15 AM, "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I have a Webview, and I want to do something with the selected text.
>
> I tried:
> DOMRange *dr = [ webView selectedDOMRange ];
> NSString *m = [ dr markupString ];
> this contains the selected characters, but buried in lots of markup language.
> But I just want the characters.
>
> NSString *s= [ dr stringRepresentation ];
> just returns "Undefined".
>
> I could do [webView copy:nil ]; and then get the string from the general
> pasteboard, but I rather do not like to mess up the pasteboard - the user
> might have put something important there.
>
> So I tried:
> NSPasteboard *pasteboard = [ NSPasteboard pasteboardWithUniqueName ];
> NSArray *types = [ NSArray arrayWithObject: NSPasteboardTypeString ];
> [ webView writeSelectionWithPasteboardTypes: types toPasteboard: pasteboard
> ];
> NSString *po = [ pasteboard stringForType: NSPasteboardTypeString ];
> NSLog(@"%s selectedString \"%@\"",__FUNCTION__,po);
>
> but the result is: selectedString "(null)"
> Adding [ pasteboard declareTypes: types owner: nil ] does not make any
> changes.
>
> So what am I doing wrong?
> How to get the selection as string form a WebView?
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Gerriet.
>
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