Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!newspump.sol.net!posts.news.twtelecom.net!nnrp3.twtelecom.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Lypny Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica Subject: Re: Copying Text From CDFs Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 07:42:15 +0000 (UTC) Sender: steve@smc.vnet.net Approved: Steven M. Christensen , Moderator Message-ID: References: <20140405054834.4CDCA6A54@smc.vnet.net> Lines: 22 Organization: Time-Warner Telecom NNTP-Posting-Date: 03 May 2014 07:48:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 34e5c530.news.twtelecom.net X-Trace: DXC=6SfVdl1T]eOhc=@:g6e6dKC_A=>8kQj6M;[h;PUXBgbD27hNd_eWRHDEFiONJ7[GoFM`N^geRcd7M X-Complaints-To: abuse@twtelecom.net X-Received-Bytes: 1681 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2381229485 Xref: csiph.com comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica:16893 I added Cell[StyleData["Output"], TextClipboardType -> "PlainText"] to the local style definition of Output cells in the style sheet of the CDF and executed it, but I still cannot copy text from grids as plain text. Perhaps I have the wrong syntax for the style definition. Gregory On Thu, May 1, 2014, at 11:33 AM, John Fultz wrote: > The TextClipboardType setting has to be on the entire cell. As I said, Print cells have it by default. You could set it locally on the Output style if you wished (using Format->Edit Style Definitions to change the Output style). > > As for the copying of plots, I'm afraid there's not a lot about the situation that can be done in v9, aside from deliberately invoking a Copy As item. The next release will behave better on this front, though. > > John Fultz > jfultz@wolfram.com > User Interface Group > Wolfram Research, Inc. >