type the label of me

[Richmond Mathewson]

I've just had a go with this too, and got exactly the same result 
("Adlie") which would seem
to suggest that type has not been "Unicodized" yet.

I have found an effective workaround that goes like this:

(script of a button with the label "Adélie")

on mouseUp
   put 1 into KK
   repeat until KK > 6
      put char KK of the label of me after fld "f1"
      wait 30 ticks
      add 1 to KK
   end repeat
end mouseUp

Richmond.


On 4/15/17 6:33 pm, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi Martin
>
> It appears to me that you have found a bug, probably something to do with the switch to Unicode in the LC engine.
>
> I ran a similar script in LC 8.1.4 rc1 - on a Mac, as it happens.
>
> In my button the label is “Adélie”. The output resulting from the ‘type’ command is
> Adlie
>
> and the count of characters in  the field is 5, not 6 as it should be.
>
> If I capture the characters being ‘typed’ using ‘rawKeyDown’, I get
>
> 65
> 100
> 16777449
> 108
> 105
> 101
>
> So the accented letter creates what appears to be a Unicode character, except that I can’t find a Unicode character of that value after some rather limited Googling. The other characters correspond to the relevant ASCII characters.
>
> Can someone else confirm this, and it so, I’ll be happy to report it as a bug.
>
> Graham
>
>
>
>> On 15 Apr 2017, at 15:11, martin meili via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>> I’ve got a vocabulary trainer for French.
>>
>> To make it easier for the students to produce letters with accents such as „é“ (ascii-code 142), „à“ and „ç“ I’ve a number of buttons the label of which is the accented letter. As long as I use LC < 7.0 the script „type the label of me“ works fine  - producing the accented letter just at the position of the blinking cursor in a textfield -, but doesn’t when I use LC >= 7. With normal letters such as „l“ or „ C’ „ the script works fine using any LC version.
>>
>> The script „put "C’ „ after text of field“ also works fine using any version, but here the letter isn’t in every case in its right place.
>>
>> Any ideas I should change so that I can make my standalones using LC 8.x.x.?
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
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