lin@diemen.cc.utas.oz (Zhen Jie Lin) (03/21/90)
Hello, HyperCard Experts:
When I try to paste some data including tab into HyperCard field, once I quit
from the field, the tab characters disappear immediately. Is there any way that
I can keep these tab characters so that I can use some other character (eg comma) to replace it? If I can do this, I would be able to copy some spreadsheet data
into HyperCard without great suffer.
All your response would be greately appreciated.
Zhenjie Lin
lin@diemen.cc.utas.oz
or lin@cmltas.cml.ozlin@diemen.cc.utas.oz (Zhen Jie Lin) (03/26/90)
In article <1318@diemen.cc.utas.oz>, lin@diemen.cc.utas.oz (Zhen Jie Lin) writes: > When I try to paste some data including tab into HyperCard field, once I quit > from the field, the tab characters disappear immediately. Is there any way that > I can keep these tab characters so that I can use some other character (eg comma) to replace it? If I can do this, I would be able to copy some spreadsheet data > into HyperCard without great suffer. I posted the above message couple weeks ago, and have only got one suggestion (from J. G. Smith), but still failed. Tonight, one idea suddenly came out, and the following is solution. I think this may be useful for many people, so post it to the net. -- TabToComma HyperCard Script -- by Zhenjie Lin, PO Box 445, Sandy Bay, Hobart, TAS 7005, AUSTRALIA -- 26 March, 1990 -- -- IF YOU LIKE THE SCRIPT, JUST DROP ME A LINE, I WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY -- PEOPLE MAY USE IT. THANK YOU. -- -- My email address: lin@cmltas.cml.oz -- or lin@diemen.cc.utas.oz --When copy-paste some text from external file into HyperCard, the tab --characters will be deleted. This could be annoying in some cases, --especially when the user want to use spreadsheet data. The following --script will replace tab key with comma when pasting data into a text --field. Please put it in the script of card or bg or stack or home --depending on where you want this feature. on doMenu x global finishDoMenu put false into finishDoMenu -- if x is "paste text" then tabToComma -- {insert any other commands) -- if finishDoMenu then exit doMenu pass doMenu end doMenu on tabToComma global finishDoMenu send "doMenu paste text" to hyperCard --skip the replacing if paste text into message box put the rect of the message into box put item 1 of the clickLoc into x put item 2 of the clickLoc into y if x>= item 1 of box and x<= item 3 of box andB y>= item 2 of box and y<= item 4 of box then put true into finishDoMenu exit tabToComma end if put the Number of the selectedField into fldNo get the name of the selectedField if word 1 of it is "card" then -- process cd fld repeat until offset(tab,cd fld fldNo) = 0 put "," into char offset(tab,cd fld fldNo) of cd fld fldNo end repeat else -- process bg fld repeat until offset(tab,fld fldNo) = 0 put "," into char offset(tab,fld fldNo) of fld fldNo end repeat end if put true into finishDoMenu end tabToComma
lin@diemen.cc.utas.oz (Zhen Jie Lin) (03/27/90)
In article <1328@diemen.cc.utas.oz>, lin@diemen.cc.utas.oz (Zhen Jie Lin) writes: > In article <1318@diemen.cc.utas.oz>, lin@diemen.cc.utas.oz (Zhen Jie Lin) writes: > > When I try to paste some data including tab into HyperCard field, once I quit > > from the field, the tab characters disappear immediately. Is there any way that > > I can keep these tab characters so that I can use some other character (eg comma) to replace it? If I can do this, I would be able to copy some spreadsheet data > > into HyperCard without great suffer. > > > I posted the above message couple weeks ago, and have only got one suggestion > { the rest is the script} I am sorry that the script I posted last night doesn't work properly when the message box is hiding. In that case, even the insertion I beam is within the rect of the message box, the text is still to be pasted into text field instead of message box. The following script fix this problem. I apologize for any inconvenience. -- TabToComma HyperCard Script (v1.1) -- by Zhenjie Lin, PO Box 445, Sandy Bay, Hobart, TAS 7005, AUSTRALIA -- 27 March, 1990 -- -- IF YOU LIKE THE SCRIPT, JUST DROP ME A LINE, I WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY -- PEOPLE MAY USE IT. THANK YOU. -- -- My email address: lin@cmltas.cml.oz -- or lin@diemen.cc.utas.oz --When copy-paste some text from external file into HyperCard, the tab --characters will be deleted. This could be annoying in some cases, --especially when the user want to use spreadsheet data. The following --script will replace tab key with comma when pasting data into a text --field. on doMenu x global finishDoMenu put false into finishDoMenu -- if x is "paste text" then tabToComma -- {insert any other commands) -- if finishDoMenu then exit doMenu pass doMenu end doMenu on tabToComma global finishDoMenu send "doMenu paste text" to hyperCard if the visible of the message then --check whether pasting into msg box put the rect of the message into box put item 1 of box into x1 put item 3 of box into x2 put item 2 of box into y1 put item 4 of box into y2 put item 1 of the clickLoc into x put item 2 of the clickLoc into y if x>=x1 and x<=x2 and y>= y1 and y<=y2 then put true into finishDoMenu exit tabToComma end if end if put the Number of the selectedField into fldNo get the name of the selectedField if word 1 of it is "card" then repeat until offset(tab,cd fld fldNo) = 0 put "," into char offset(tab,cd fld fldNo) of cd fld fldNo end repeat else repeat until offset(tab,fld fldNo) = 0 put "," into char offset(tab,fld fldNo) of fld fldNo end repeat end if put true into finishDoMenu end tabToComma