Re: Extract text out of NSAppleEventDescriptor

• Subject: Re: Extract text out of NSAppleEventDescriptor
• From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
• Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:00:43 -0700
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On 2007-02-11, at 13:36, has wrote:

Ivan C Myrvold wrote:

Looks like the string is not empty at all. The length of the string is correct, 188, but when I look at the chars, they alternate between 0 and the chars ASCII code:

NSString* returnObject = [[[replyDescriptor descriptorAtIndex:1]
descriptorAtIndex:1] stringValue];

(gdb) p (char)[returnObject characterAtIndex:0]
$1 = 0 '\000'
Current language:  auto; currently objective-c
(gdb) p (char)[returnObject characterAtIndex:1]
$2 = 68 'D'

Sounds a bit suspect - where's the descriptor coming from? Could be that the source is packing UTF16 data into a descriptor with type typeChar/typeUTF8Text instead of typeUnicodeText/ typeUTF16ExternalRepresentation.

Certainly looks like it.

Philip Aker
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