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PatrickDunn
Qrew Assistant Captain
5 years ago

iol and intercept .onpaste

Hello. Would I be able to use the iol technique to to intercept .onpaste and use my own custom code? Thanks! ------------------------------ Patrick Dunn ------------------------------
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EverettPatterso
Qrew Captain
I'm not sure, RichText fields are not supposed to behave that way. 

You are probably better off looking for a Javascript solution. Here's a similiar post, see Dan's demo where the canvas image is converted to base64. POST LINK 

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Everett Patterson
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PatrickDunn
Qrew Assistant Captain
5 years ago
Thanks, Everett. That's a very intriguing post. Perhaps I can provide a bit more context about my issue. If you follow these steps in Firefox, you'll see what I mean. 
  • Save an image to your desktop.
  • Open the image.
  • Right-click copy the image
  • Open a QB form that contains a rich text field
  • Right-click in the rich text field. Choose the paste option.
  • In the subsequent pop-up, cntrl-v (paste) the image.
  • In Firefox, the image is pasted. Firefox base64 encodes the image in that pop-up.
    • Note: I'm aware of the table space implications and have solved for them.
  • In Chrome, nothing happens.
Because my users demand to be able to paste the image directly into the field (i.e. as opposed to entering a reference to an image) and because most of my users use Chrome, I need a way to make Chrome behave like Firefox when it comes to paste. I figured if I could intercept the paste action within that pop-up window, I could have Chrome run the code I need.

That being said, does what I'm saying seem feasible?

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Patrick Dunn
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