problems pasting text into the IDE (mac os x)

[Alex Rice]

I work in MS Excel extensively, copy pasting text between it and 
Revolution.

I experience problems with the Rev IDE when I copy-paste text from MS 
Excel into the IDE, on OS X. Like:

- script won't compile
- find and replace dialog won't find correctly
- answer dialog won't properly display text stored in a custom property

clipboard() just says "text". But most fields in the IDE seem to be 
perfectly happy to accept extended or control characters in a 
copy-paste operation, but that causes trouble later on.

What makes me think it's a bug with Rev:

If I delete the pasted text in the IDE, and then type the same text 
directly into the IDE, then the problems go away. Also if I paste the 
same text from Excel into Emacs, or into TextEdit.app, no control 
characters or extended characters are shown. So even if Excel *is* 
putting weird characters into the pasteboard, shouldn't Rev be able to 
deal with it?

Are there any 3rd party apps I can use to clean up the text of what's 
on the clipboard.

I guess I could write a smart pasteKey handler and try to insert it 
into the message path before the IDE's pasteKey handler, but what a 
pain to track this down.


Alex Rice <alex at mindlube.com> | Mindlube Software | 
<http://mindlube.com>

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