AppleWorks database text font issue (ASS)
AppleWorks database text font issue (ASS)
- Subject: AppleWorks database text font issue (ASS)
- From: Jeffrey Mattox <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 22:33:10 -0500
More info:
I can get my strange strings to work if I do this:
set text item delimiters to ""
set theString to (every character of theString) as string
So, what's going on when I blow up a string and then put it back
together again? What's being dropped?
Jeff
Previously, I wrote:
I have 800 records in an AppleWorks 6 database. I fetch a record,
and then pick it apart.
get |Name| of aRecord -- all my fields are of type "text"
--> "Fred"
If I use Script Editor, I can get the data, as above.
In AppleScript Studio, however, I can only extract the fields from
some of the records.
Those that work are fields whose data were typed into the database
character by character. Those that don't work are fields whose data
were pasted into the database, having been cut from a web page. In
that case, I get an empty string (of class "string"). Looking at
the fonts, all those that work are Courier 12 pt., and all those
that don't are Lucida Grande 13 pt.
Why does the font matter? Is there a way around this, short of
manually changing all the entries, one by one? (Is there a way to
change the font of all fields of all records, en masse?)
Configuration: AppleWorks 6.2.7, Mac OS 10.2.5
Jeff
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