Browser, cut-copy html code. A newbie intrusion

[Mariasole]

Hello!
Sorry , I'm a absolute beginner and I should not be here ... but there is someone who would have some idea about it?
The post is published in the section "Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners"

http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17587


Thank you so much for reading these lines!
Sorry for the intrusion!

Mariasole

[Klaus]

Hola Maria,

since Livecode does not support this directly, I got it working somehow ,
but the user needs to COPY (via menu or shortcut) the selected text on the page himself!

When I use "copy" in the script, it does NOT copy the selected text!?
Here is my workaround in a button script:

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on mouseUp
   ## copy
   ## Don't work???!!!!
   ## Although it is the SAME as if the user selectes that menu or the shortcut CMD-C!!!??? 
   ## Too funky :-D

  #ä The rest works fine when the user copies himself, see above...
   put the clipboarddata["html"] into tHtml
   set the htmltext of the templatefield to tHtml
   put the htmltext of the templatefield into a Variable
   put aVariable 
   ## HTML text with tags etc :-)

   reset the templatefield
end mouseUp

Best

Klaus

[Mariasole]

Grazie Klaus!!!
You were really kind and brilliant !

I tried your solution and would be fine for other uses but not for the test I'm doing.
Let me explain. I need the exact html source of the selection of the text of the html page ...

We proceed step by step. I used your code this way:

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on mouseUp
   ## -----------------------------------------------
   ## (c) Klaus The Genius
   ## Codice rimasticato ignobilmente da Mariasole ;)
   ## -----------------------------------------------



   put the clipboarddata["html"] into tHtml
   set the htmltext of the templatefield to tHtml
   put the htmltext of the templatefield into aVariable
   put aVariable into field "fBrowser"
   reset the templatefield


end mouseUp

1) I go on the usual page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_King
2) I select text and copy:

John Barton "Bart" King (October 19, 1873 – October 17, 1965) was an American cricketer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries


3) I press the button (with the Genius Klaus Code] and here is the html that returns

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<p spaceabove="5" spacebelow="5"><b><font size="16">John Barton</font></b><font size="16"> "<b>Bart</b>" <b>King</b> (October 19, 1873 &ndash; October 17, 1965) was an American </font><a name="/wiki/Cricket"><u><font size="16" color="#0000FF">cricketer</font></u></a><font size="16">, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. </font></p>
<p>&#0;</p>

But the real HTML selection code of the web page is:

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<b>John Barton</b> "<b>Bart</b>" <b>King</b> (October 19, 1873 – October 17, 1965) was an American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricketer</a>, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

From what I understand, but consider that I am a ignorant beginner , (so do not laugh ), LC does his "interpretation" of HTML ...

Do you think there is a solution to have the exact html string selection?

Davvero grazie e complimenti!

Mariasole
=^..^=

[Klaus]

Buongiorno Maria,

sorry, no other brilliant idea in the moment...

I consider this a bug, if Livecode gives you its interpretation of the source!


Best

Klaus