Maintain color highlighting when text is copied to word doc

[cherllea]

Hi,
When I copy the text from the RSyntaxTextArea to a word doc, the pasted code is plain text in black color but I want the text to be copied with the color code that was in the textarea. I noticed the method copyasRTF(). Can some one tell me if there is any simple method to switch on and off the color highlighting or should I write an actionlistener overwriting stuff.
thanks
Cherllea

[robert]

Copying as RTF currently isn't tied to a keystroke by default, mainly due to it not being tested very much, but you can do so yourself like so:

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InputMap im = textArea.getInputMap();
ActionMap am = textArea.getActionMap();
int mods = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getMenuShortcutKeyMask() | InputEvent.SHIFT_DOWN_MASK;
KeyStroke ks = KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_C, mods);
im.put(ks, "copyAsRtf");
am.put("copyAsRtf", new RSyntaxTextAreaEditorKit.CopyAsRtfAction());


This way you don't have to call copyAsRtf() yourself in something such as a KeyListener. Just add that code wherever you create your RSTA instance.

The above example ties the "Copy as RTF" action to Ctrl+Shift+C (Cmd+Shift+C on Macs) so it doesn't conflict with the standard Ctrl+C copy. There's no reason you couldn't simply override the current copy functionality by removing the "| InputEvent.SHIFT_DOWN_MASK" from the snippet above. Then all of your copying will be in RTF (unless the destination doesn't understand RTF, in which case it'll be plain text like usual).

Let me know how this works out for you!

[cherllea]

Hey,

works for both ctrl+c and ctrl+shift+c. thanks a lot.
cheers,
cherllea