Re: weird clipboard behaviour
Re: weird clipboard behaviour
- Subject: Re: weird clipboard behaviour
- From: Dave Johnson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:11:09 -0500
on 11/14/01 12:22 PM, JJ at email@hidden wrote:
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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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set test_string2 to (the clipboard as string)
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(works for me, returning "5")
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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?
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JJ
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Does not work in X.
Thanks
Dave