Did you know?

[Jacob Farber]

Im sorry if any of you find this less than amusing, but did you know you can
copy excel cells right into director, and it turns the copied material into
a wrapped table?! Im a little interested in how this happens....but again Im
sorry for wasting anyone's time with this tidbit, especially if its old
news....just thought I'd share.
Jacob

[Robert Tweed]

"Jacob Farber" <jacobfarber@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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>
> Im sorry if any of you find this less than amusing, but did you know you

can

> copy excel cells right into director, and it turns the copied material

into

> a wrapped table?!

What do you mean by a wrapped table? When I try this, I get a bitmap image,
much like if I'd taken a screen grab of the cells and pasted that.

- Robert

[Robert Tweed]

"Jacob Farber" <jacobfarber@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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>
> Attached is a working example in MX.

Naughty, naughty... For future reference, upload to the web and post a
link - attachments are not allowed.

> I was using Excel 2002. I selected an entire row of cells, copied them,
> then went into Director MX and pasted them into a text member.

The same thing happens when I do this in D851 - its because text members are
HTML aware and Excel is also able to convert its clipboard into HTML. The
effect is much the same as when you paste a table into Word, and it becomes
a Word table layout.

> I wonder if you can access these tables with Lingo??

It's exactly the same as any other text member - try putting the html of the
member - you'll see plain ordinary HTML table source. Its not linked to
Excel in any way, and doesn't have any special properties.

- Robert

[Jacob Farber]

> The same thing happens when I do this in D851 - its because text members
are

> HTML aware and Excel is also able to convert its clipboard into HTML. The
> effect is much the same as when you paste a table into Word, and it

becomes

> a Word table layout.

Interesting, but the same effect applies to fields as well. Are they HTML
aware as well?



"Robert Tweed" <robert@killingmoon.com> wrote in message
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> "Jacob Farber" <jacobfarber@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:bqfmoo$hao$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> >
> > Attached is a working example in MX.

>
> Naughty, naughty... For future reference, upload to the web and post a
> link - attachments are not allowed.
>

> > I was using Excel 2002. I selected an entire row of cells, copied them,
> > then went into Director MX and pasted them into a text member.

>
> The same thing happens when I do this in D851 - its because text members

are

> HTML aware and Excel is also able to convert its clipboard into HTML. The
> effect is much the same as when you paste a table into Word, and it

becomes

> a Word table layout.
>

> > I wonder if you can access these tables with Lingo??

>
> It's exactly the same as any other text member - try putting the html of

the

> member - you'll see plain ordinary HTML table source. Its not linked to
> Excel in any way, and doesn't have any special properties.
>
> - Robert
>
>

[Robert Tweed]

"Jacob Farber" <jacobfarber@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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>
> Interesting, but the same effect applies to fields as well. Are they HTML
> aware as well?

They aren't supposed to be. I don't know what happens in MX, but on my
system if I paste into a field, I get a table until I go out of edit mode,
at which point it turns into a tab-separated list and the HTML formatting is
lost.

- Robert

[Jacob Farber]

your right....just something else to fiddle around with for me
Thanks,
Jacob
"Robert Tweed" <robert@killingmoon.com> wrote in message
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> "Jacob Farber" <jacobfarber@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:bqfoqg$lmq$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> >
> > Interesting, but the same effect applies to fields as well. Are they

HTML

> > aware as well?

>
> They aren't supposed to be. I don't know what happens in MX, but on my
> system if I paste into a field, I get a table until I go out of edit mode,
> at which point it turns into a tab-separated list and the HTML formatting

is

> lost.
>
> - Robert
>
>