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Title: Copying Code "SELECTED" from FireFly Forums
Post by: Jim Dunn on January 16, 2010, 01:22:37 AM
Hi Paul,

Forgive me for not understanding this... but when I click "SELECT" to copy some code, and then CTRL-C on my keyboard, and then paste into NOTEPAD... it's all one long line... and I have to put in CRLF's manually...

Help!?!  : )
Jim
Title: Re: Copying Code "SELECTED" from FireFly Forums
Post by: Cho Sing Kum on January 16, 2010, 01:37:43 AM
I have the problem too so I paste into wordpad first to retain the formatting. Then copy from wordpad and paste into editor.
Title: Re: Copying Code "SELECTED" from FireFly Forums
Post by: Paul Squires on January 16, 2010, 10:18:00 AM
The problem is that different web browsers manipulate the text differently.
Title: Re: Copying Code "SELECTED" from FireFly Forums
Post by: Cho Sing Kum on January 16, 2010, 11:04:30 AM
Paul is right.

I just tested Google Chrome copy and paste direct to editor and the formatting is retained.

IE7 has the problem.
Title: Re: Copying Code "SELECTED" from FireFly Forums
Post by: David Warner on January 16, 2010, 01:16:23 PM
IE8 has the same trouble.
Title: Re: Copying Code "SELECTED" from FireFly Forums
Post by: Jean-pierre Leroy on January 16, 2010, 01:20:29 PM
No problem with FireFox it works like perfectly  :)
Title: Re: Copying Code "SELECTED" from FireFly Forums
Post by: Martin Francom on January 16, 2010, 01:50:16 PM
The solution I found that works for me is to:

select the forum responce as a Reply with the QUOTE method, then I can copy the information I want from the reply edit window.  And, when I paste the information into note pad or PB-Editor  the CR/LF are retained and the formating is correct.

I am using Win-7 and IE8
Title: Re: Copying Code "SELECTED" from FireFly Forums
Post by: Roger Garstang on January 17, 2010, 09:54:41 AM
IE has always had this problem, even in the PB forums...at least in the old ones it did.  I have a clipboard tool app I've posted a few times that can view all the different types of data in the clipboard.  If you compare RTF and Plain Text they are usually different, that is why pasting to other apps that read other types of clipboard data work.  IE screws up when placing the text there.