Re: When a string is not a string for Palm Desktop
Re: When a string is not a string for Palm Desktop
- Subject: Re: When a string is not a string for Palm Desktop
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 14:58:55 -0700
On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 04:07 US/Pacific, Richard Morton wrote:
I wasn't actually meaning it as a complaint about the new PD...
Oh, no, I didn't mean that either. I just meant that people complain
about not being able to turn international text into plain text.
There may be some confusion here too - I'm not getting the string from
PD, I'm trying to feed it to PD.
Yes, I missed that detail. I thought you were getting the string from
PD, then getting an error trying to set it back in PD, which is clearly
a problem. Well, it's a problem anyway, regardless of where the text
comes from.
Unfortunately, it looks like you found a bug here. When you set the
title of a memo Palm Desktop tries to coerce the value to a Pascal
string ('pstr'), which fails. Coercing to text ('TEXT') seems to
work, though.
Looks like we might be talking about two different things - I'm trying
to set the field text of a custom field of an address.
The problem is the same. My comments about Pascal strings vs. text is
an implementation detail that doesn't mean anything, really. What I
should have said is:
It looks like you simply won't be able to set any text properties in PD
to international text (and perhaps other text formats like styled text
and Unicode text, I'd bet) for properties that are normally limited to
255 characters or less, because in all those cases I failed to write
the correct code to get the text from the Apple event. Unfortunately, I
think that's every text property except for memo contents (which can be
up to 32K), where I wrote the code correctly (AFAICT).
Thanks for the reply and thanks again for all the work on PD4.1 - as
far as I'm concerned the scripting has gone from ugly to excellent.
If this & the 'contents of contents' issue are your only 2 bugs, I'd
say you're well in front of the pack! I hear the Cocoa team could use
a hand if you're looking for work... ;-)
Thanks for the encouraging words. And I'm glad to hear the scripting is
improvement for you. (That is, after all, exactly why I did the work. :)
--
Chris Page - Software Wrangler - Palm, Inc.
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