Hello,
This was an excellent suggestion, as was the one speculating that the problem was the use of the term "contents" instead of the preferred (in a handler) "content." However, neither suggestion solves the issue that anything taken from a text field or text view, even when coerced to "string," returns so-called bad characters, whereas straight vanilla AS strings do not return such characters.
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>Text fields actually use Unicode texts, not strings. AppleScript (or
>the text field object, not too sure on the internals) is coercing it
>for you. If you then set a variable to the text field's contents, it
>will be a unicode text, and barring a new coercion to a string, will
>send "bad characters" (eg, the text in the wrong encoding) to the
>central database. When just putting anything between two quotes,
>AppleScript will assume its a string (which, in the case of AppleScript
>Studio, I *really* wish they'd change to a defaul of Unicode text, and
>allow UTF-16 source code files).
>
>To coerce them out, just say something like
>
>set txtByline to (contents of "txtByline" of window "winStory") as
>string
>
>Parentheses might not be necessary.
>
>Matthew Stuckwisch
>Senior, Spanish and New Media
>University of Alabama
>
>On Mar 22, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Jim Trebilcock wrote:
>
>
>
>> Hello,
>> I've run into an interesting snag while porting my OS 9
>> AppleScript-based programs to AS Studio.
>> One program my reporters use standardizes "slugs" (story names)
>> and inserts byline coding when stories are created in our central
>> database. In my AS Studio version of this longstanding program, any
>> text that has been entered in an AS studio text field is reported as
>> having "bad characters" by our database. If I hardcode the string in
>> my AS Studio program and avoid the text fields (set txtByline to "Jim
>> Trebilcock" instead of set txtByline to contents of text field
>> "txtByline" of window "winStory"), this works fine and the database is
>> happy.
>> Question: What is being returned by AS Studio text fields that
>> is NOT being returned by a vanilla AppleScript string? How can I
>> coerce these items out of the byline (and other) strings when read
>> from an AS studio text field?
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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