rtfText twilight zone problem

Mark Smith lists at futilism.com
Thu Aug 14 20:43:39 EDT 2008


Josh, I just downloaded  your stack.

I'm using a mac , 10.4.11

In Rev 2.9, I see the same weirdness you describe, but under 3.0  
beta10, all is fine....

I can find no mention of rtfText bugs in the changeLogs, but it looks  
like something has got fixed.


Best,

Mark

On 15 Aug 2008, at 00:09, Josh Mellicker wrote:

>
> If you either download this stack:
>
> http://revcoders.org/stacks/rtfWeirdness.rev.zip
>
> or make one yourself:
>
> 1. create a field called "draft", and a field called "final" (and a  
> couple buttons)
>
>
> 2. put some text in it, and colorize some words in that field  
> (either with the menu or by scripting)
>
>
> 3. then save the rtfText of the field to a file
>
>
> 4. button "save":
>
> ON mouseUp
>     ask file "where?"
>     put the rtftext of fld "draft" into URL ("file:" & it)
> END mouseUp
>
>
> 5. button "load":
>
> ON mouseUp
>     answer file "which file?"
>     put url("file:" & it) into t1
>
>     set the rtftext of fld "final" to t1
>
>     -- at this point it is visibly clear colors have changed
>
>     put the rtftext of fld "final" into t2
>     IF t1 <> t2 THEN answer "nooo"
>
> END mouseUp
>
>
> Do you get "nooo" every time? We do, on OS X, both PPC & Intel.
>
> The variable t1 is always perfect... but once setting the rtfText  
> of the field, it is set to a value VERY CLOSE, but NOT EXACTLY the  
> variable.
>
> Weeeeird! Are we in the twilight zone?
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