hmmm - bug or not?

[kpeters58]

Only tested with editor - other gadgets are probably affected as well.

If you set an editor gadget's font to bold and paste some non-bolded text into it, the text does not get converted to bold, but stays normal or italic (or whatever it was).

Opinions?

[Josh]

The text you insert has the formatting of the text you copied. A normal behavior for the EditorGadget.

[RobertSF]

It's a behavior I see in Microsoft products. It can be annoying, but I can see why the behavior is as it is.

It's annoying when, for example, you try to copy something from a web page into a Word document. Now your Word document is full of crap, javascript, css, or whatever was formatting the text you copied. In Word, what you do is Paste Special, Text Only. If I'm working in an application that doesn't have that feature, like Outlook, I paste what I copied from the web page into Notepad. That strips all the crap out of it, and then I can copy and paste that into wherever.

But the behavior makes sense. Formatting belongs to the text it formats, I guess.

[gurj]

I seem to remember that there are APIs that can set gadget to use text or RTF formats...

[Shardik]

For Windows RASHAD has already demonstrated here how to paste RTF text or plain text into the EditorGadget.

[gurj]

thanks Shardik! for lnk.

[skywalk]

This is a feature. To paste without formatting, use [Ctrl+Shift+V].
And/or code that into your app's.

[gurj]

on my PC, WinXP x86
[Ctrl+Shift+V]=[Ctrl+V].

[blueb]

I've used this method in my IDE 'Tools' menu for a couple of years, and it works well on Win 10 x64 machine.

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[Marc56us]

If you set an editor gadget's font to bold and paste some non-bolded text into it, the text does not get converted to bold, but stays normal or italic (or whatever it was).

Adds a button (Paste) or personal keyboard shortcut and uses SetGadgetText(#Gadget, GetClipboardText()) instead of CTRL+V The original (pasted) format will be deleted and will take the format defined by the gadget. This also removes all RTF formatting.

or remove format after paste

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Procedure Drop_Format()
    SetClipboardText(GetGadgetText(#Gadget))
    SetGadgetText(#Gadget, GetClipboardText())
    ClearClipboard()
EndProcedure

The text will be replaced and will have the format originally defined by the gadget.