Coercing Styled Text to Text
Coercing Styled Text to Text
- Subject: Coercing Styled Text to Text
- From: Ehsan Saffari <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 02:55:58 -0600
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:24:46 +0100, Nigel Garvey
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Subject:Re: Subject: Error geetting offset of char in errMsg
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Shane Stanley wrote on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:31:44 +1000:
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>On 13/6/01 9:48 AM +1000, Nigel Garvey, email@hidden, wrote:
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>> work-rounds that have worked in the past include:
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>> on error message
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>> set message to message as unicode text as text
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>Why do we have to go via Unicode, though?
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It was just a fast way that Jeff Baumann (I think) discovered to convert
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styled text into plain text. Obviously it would obviously be nicer if
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there were a more direct coercion. More recently, there's been Richard
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23's method, which I carelessly forgot to mention in my previous post:
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on error message
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set message to <<class ktxt>> of (message as record)
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('<<' and '>>' are of course the single characters produced on
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English-language keyboards by typing option-"\" and shift-option-"\"
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respectively.)
or a slightly differnt variation
set plainTxt to item 1 of (((stylTextObj) as record) as list)
cheers
ehsan