Re: Chevrons [getting OT] - and back on topic again
Re: Chevrons [getting OT] - and back on topic again
- Subject: Re: Chevrons [getting OT] - and back on topic again
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 17:28:32 -0800
On 1/4/01 5:05 PM, "Serge Belleudy-d'Espinose" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Back to scripting now.
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I wonder if anyone has already encountered a problem that has plagued me for
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awhile. I'm working on a script that extracts a resource as string and do all
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sorts of manipulation with it. This involved dealing with ascii char (0) -
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adding, getting the offset of etc.
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The script by itself works well, but just showing ascii 0 in SE's event log
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window or SMILE for example can lead to unpredictable results, from displaying
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a whole junk in place of each character to crashing whatever editor.
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At first I thought the culprit was the osax - and I've bothered more than one
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author, sorry :) - until I find today that it has nothing to do with it.
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So, is this a known bug, am I the only one to encounter it, is there any
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solution?
No, I'm glad you mentioned it. About 3 or 4 weeks ago I reported that
calling ASCII character 0 crashed Smile using OS 9.0.4, and nobody else
confirmed it - about 4 or 5 people said they had no problem.
Well, I confirm it.
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Paul Berkowitz