tldraw/packages/ui
Steve Ruiz a1e72014c6
[improvement] refactor paste to support multi-line text (#1398)
This PR refactors our clipboard handlers. It should simplify the way
that things work and better handle the difference between how the native
API events are handled vs. the browser's clipboard API events.

![Kapture 2023-05-17 at 13 26
34](https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/assets/23072548/5dedcc25-a1d2-423f-8bc2-415f761b643b)

Everything that used to be supported now also still works.

In addition, we now have several useful features:

### Multiline text can be pasted into the app

When pasting text that contains more than one line, the text is pasted
correctly; even if the clipboard also includes HTML data. Previously, we
would try to paste HTML data if we found it, because that data might
contain tldraw's own content as a comment; but if that failed, we would
paste the data as text instead. This led to pasting text that lost lots
of information from that text, such as line breaks and indentations.

### Multiline text shapes are aligned correctly

When pasting raw text that has more than one line, the text will be left
aligned—or right aligned if the text is likely from a RTL language.

![Kapture 2023-05-17 at 13 42
54](https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/assets/23072548/f705acd5-136c-4144-80da-6e97ff766a58)

### Common minimum indentation is removed from each line

![Kapture 2023-05-17 at 13 56
28](https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/assets/23072548/d45c95f6-6d28-4c9f-8cd3-8078700ce928)

This is something that absolutely every app should implement, but here
we go. When multiline text has "common indentation" on each line, which
is often the case when pasting text from code, then that indentation is
removed from each line.

### Auto wrapping for big pastes

When a line has no text breaks but a lot of text, we now set the width
of the text shape.

![Kapture 2023-05-17 at 14 00
04](https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/assets/23072548/0b7f69c3-bcf9-42e9-a1ed-df026f868793)

## How it works

A `ClipboardThing` is the common interface for things that we found on
the clipboard, native or otherwise. Both `handlePasteFromClipboardApi`
and `handlePasteFromEventClipboardData` parse out `ClipboardThing`s and
pass them to `handleClipboardThings`.

<img width="905" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/assets/23072548/fd087539-edbb-4527-b5ff-ca7d7c1726b2">

A `ClipboardResult` is the result of processing a `ClipboardThing`, and
usually contains text and other information about that text. We make
decisions on what to create based on which `ClipboardResult`s we find.

When pasting text, we check to see whether the result would be bigger
than the viewport, or if the text is multiline, or if the text is of an
RTL language by testing certain common RTL characters. We make some
adjustments based on those factors, ensuring that the top-left corner of
the text is on screen and reasonably positioned within the viewport if
possible.

### Change Type

- [x] `minor` — New Feature

### Test Plan

1. Copy and paste shapes
2. Copy and paste text from elsewhere into the app
3. Copy and paste images from elsewhere into the app
4. Try on different browsers

### Release Notes

- Improves clipboard logic when pasting text
- Adds support for pasting multi-line text
- Adds maximum widths when pasting single-line text
- Adds support for RTL languages when pasting multi-line or wrapped text
- Strips leading indentation when pasting text
2023-05-17 16:32:25 +00:00
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src [improvement] refactor paste to support multi-line text (#1398) 2023-05-17 16:32:25 +00:00
api-extractor.json transfer-out: transfer out 2023-04-25 12:01:25 +01:00
api-report.md [improvement] refactor paste to support multi-line text (#1398) 2023-05-17 16:32:25 +00:00
CHANGELOG.md transfer-out: transfer out 2023-04-25 12:01:25 +01:00
package.json avoid lazy race conditions (#1364) 2023-05-12 15:41:40 +00:00
README.md readmes 2023-05-04 13:47:56 +01:00
setupTests.js derived presence state (#1204) 2023-04-27 18:03:19 +00:00
tsconfig.json transfer-out: transfer out 2023-04-25 12:01:25 +01:00
ui.css Snapshot link menu translations (#1399) 2023-05-17 14:01:50 +00:00

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