Re: interesting discovery (trying to get record labels as strings)
Re: interesting discovery (trying to get record labels as strings)
- Subject: Re: interesting discovery (trying to get record labels as strings)
- From: "Serge Belleudy-d'Espinose" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 23:01:36 +0100
At 14:55 -0500 5/12/01, Michael Sullivan wrote:
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So a little more experimenting tells me that that monstrosity I posted
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actually *is* the same string that everyone else is seeing, but
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apparently smile is converting those single low ascii codes into long
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strings of garbage that seem to depend on the run time. Today I tried
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running just the following code
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set k0 to ASCII character 0
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and for the result sometimes saw --> " " or the open box character.
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Other times I got a nice long chunk of garbage, which included strings
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like "Im a debugger flag" and "Im a classic app" interspersed with
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regular patterns of high ascii looking chars, but which I can't
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reproduce in its entirety since smile has since crashed. In any case, a
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different string than I got for each low ascii char yesterday, and it
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wasn't consistent.
Which version of Smile are you using? I remember 1.7.x had this problem - by that time I also mentioned it to Emmanuel - but 1.8.x doesn't have this problem anymore.
Serge
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