problems pasting text into the IDE (mac os x)

[Wouter]

On 10 Jan 2004, at 11:17, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 20:59:31 -0700
> From: Alex Rice <alex at mindlube.com>
> Subject: problems pasting text into the IDE (mac os x)
> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> 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
>

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


Hi Alex,

The problem can be caused by some < numtochar(0) > characters left in
the text by any text editor. May be there are others, but this is the 
one
I could catch.
In the script editor you can produce the same effect :
    produce a little handler which will "apply"
    type for example a circumflex or umlaut followed by a tab
    then delete the character produced by this
    and try to "apply" again
    if done "correctly" it will throw the error

then copy the text of the script into a fld
and run the following handler:

on mouseUp
   get fld "test"
   repeat  for each char i in it
     put chartonum(i) & space after a
   end repeat
   put a into fld "test"
end mouseUp

HTH,
WA