Re: weird clipboard behaviour
Re: weird clipboard behaviour
- Subject: Re: weird clipboard behaviour
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:26:50 -0800
At 8:42 AM -0500 11/14/2001, Dave Johnson wrote:
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I found this last night and thought I was just sleep deprived. But it is
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still weird this morning and I've duplicated this on two different machines
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and in OS 9.1 and 10.1.
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The script:
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set test_string to "abcdefghijklmne"
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display dialog (offset of "e" in test_string)
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set the clipboard to test_string
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set test_string2 to the clipboard
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display dialog (offset of "e" in test_string2)
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display dialog test_string2
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The first 'offset of "e"' gives me 5 as I would expect. However after a trip
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through the clipboard offset can no longer find "e". It returns 0. I've
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tried many different variations (copy vs set) added "as string" etc. but it
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comes out the same. Any ideas?
It looks like a bug in the offset command, although I don't have any idea what could be causing it. It looks like the clipboard is definitely involved as removing it (i.e. copy the string instead) makes things work, but I don't see it having any obvious effect. The strings are the same, with the same length and no obvious junk.
So, I see the behavior too, and have no idea what's happening.
Jon