Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

[Jim Ault]

On 11/8/06 11:47 PM, "Kay C Lan" <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> The occasional failure of the IDE to paste the contents of the clipboard.

This has been discussed before on this list, probably about a year ago.
Don't know if there is a Bugzilla or not.

Yes, the clipboardData is not 100% reliable.  I did create one solution for
AppleScript, moving text by copy in Excel, paste into BBEdit, copy, then
paste into Rev in order to bring some table data from Excel.  This produced
cleaner formatting(tabs), but still was not 100% reliable.  Without the
BBEdit step, less than 50% reliable.

My end solution was to parse the returned 'result' for the quote/comma list
format of AppleScript.  Works fine for limited needs.

If the simple Applescript return does not work for you, I would suggest you
save as a tempFile.txt to the desktop from AppleScript, then
put url ("file:"&path&filenameUsed.txt) into theVarYouWant
delete file path&filenameUsed.txt

I can post the script I use to pass variables directly to Excel, then use
the returned values in Rev.  This does not involve triggering Excel VBA
macros, although you could.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 11/8/06 11:47 PM, "Kay C Lan" <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well folks with the opportunity to spend all yesterday scripting, what
> did I do. I went bug hunting. I've never submitted a bug into Bugzilla
> but I felt it was time I stepped up and gave it a shot so I went after
> the 'IDE anomaly' that irks me most.
> 
> The occasional failure of the IDE to paste the contents of the clipboard.
> 
> Here is my recipe. Sorry this is Mac specific as it uses Automator - I
> guess there is some Windows equivalent of Automator which might
> produce a similar result.
> 
> Basically when you run this script nothing ends up in field "Text",
> nothing in the msg box, but if you select any other application that
> handles text and select 'Paste' or the keyboard shortcut, the contents
> of your file will be pasted. Going back to Rev and using either the
> keyboard or the menu will NOT paste anything into field "Text".
> 
> TextEdit Test
> Step 1: Start TextEdit, create a new document and enter some text.
>> From the 'Format' menu select "Make Plain Text" and save to your
> desktop with a useful name like 'Input.txt' I left the Encoding as
> 'Western (Mac OS Roman)'
> 
> Step 2: If you are familiar with Automator:
> i) Finder action to "Ask For Finder Items"
> ii) Finder action to "Open Finder Item" Open with "TextEdit"
> iii) TextEdit action to "Get Contents of TextEdit Document"
> iv) System action to "Copy to Clipboard"
> v) TextEdit action to "New Text File" Save as "Output.txt" to 'Desktop'
> 
> 
> If you are not familiar with Automator:
> a) Select 'New' from the 'File' menu.
> b) Choose 'Finder' in Library column, Applications folder.
> c) Select from the 'Action' Column: "Ask for Finder Items"
> The defaults should be: Type: Files, Start at: Desktop, Allow Multiple: No
> d) Select from the 'Action' Column: "Open Finder Items"
> Change "Open with:" from the Default Application to "TextEdit"
> e) Choose 'TextEdit' in the Library column
> f) Drag "Get Contents of TextEdit Document" from the Action column to
> the Automator window.
> g) Drag "Copy to Clipboard" from the Action column to the Automator window.
> h) Choose 'TextEdit' from the Library column.
> i) Drag "New Text File" from the Action column to the Automator window.
> Set 'Save as' to "Output.txt" and 'Where' to "Desktop"
> 
> 
> Step 3: Save as... "Text to CB TextEdit" as an application. The name
> must be the same as used in the Rev script.
> 
> Step 4: Click the Automator 'Run' button to confirm that it operates
> as expected (delete the Output.txt file created on your desktop)
> 
> Step 5: In Rev create a new stack with one button "Start" and one field "Text"
> Step 6: In the button place the following script:
> 
> Be careful of line breaks, line numbers are commented at the end.
> 
> on mouseUP  --1
> set the clipboardData["text"] to empty  --2
> do "tell application" & quote & "Text to CB TextEdit" & quote &
> return & "run" & return & "end tell" & return & "tell application" &
> quote & "Revolution" & quote & return & "activate" & return & "end
> tell" as AppleScript  --3
>     --do "tell application" & quote & "Text to CB BBEdit" & quote &
> return & "run" & return & "end tell" & return & "tell application" &
> quote & "Revolution" & quote & return & "activate" & return & "end
> tell" as AppleScript  --4
>     wait 10 seconds  --gives Automator time to do it's thing  --5
>     select text of field "Text"  --6
>     paste  --7
>     --the breakpoint is here so that you can use the Variable Watcher
> to see that tMyStore initially contains "empty" then it is empty.  --8
>     breakpoint  --9
>     put the clipboard into tMyStore  --10
>     put the clipboardData["Text"] into tMyStore  --11
>     put tMyStore into msg  --12
> end mouseUp  --13
> 
> You'll notice in the script above a 'do' statement at line 4 which has
> been commented out. Because TextEdit isn't the most powerful text
> editor around I thought I'd give it another go using BBEdit, and one
> further step, converting the file contents to ASCII. I imagine this
> might be possible with the free TextWrangler if you don't own BBEdit.
> 
> BBEdit Test
> Step 7: Now that you are familiar with Automator:
> i) Finder action to "Ask For Finder Items"
> ii) Finder action to "Open Finder Item" Open with "TextEdit"
> iii) BBEdit action to "Get Contents of BBEdit Document"
> **iv) BBEdit action to "Convert to ASCII"**
> v) System action to "Copy to Clipboard"
> vi) BBEdit action to "New BBEdit Document" Save as "Output.txt" to 'Desktop'
> 
> Step 8: Save as... **"Text to CB BBEdit"** as an application. The name
> must be the same as used in the Rev script.
> 
> Step 9: Click the Automator 'Run' button to confirm that it operates
> as expected (delete the Output.txt file created on your desktop)
> 
> Step 10: In the button script comment the first 'do' statement and
> uncomment the second one.
> 
> Looking for confirmation that others experience a clipboard full of
> text that only Rev doesn't want to touch and believe this is a bug.
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