Re: Stupid, Stupid Text Features [Was: Can't set creator type]
Re: Stupid, Stupid Text Features [Was: Can't set creator type]
- Subject: Re: Stupid, Stupid Text Features [Was: Can't set creator type]
- From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:59:06 +0000
On 24 Feb 2004, at 2.18 pm, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
set theCode to <<class ktxt>> of (text returned of dRes) as record
There. I said it was hairy. Paul is one of the most knowledgeable and
experienced contributors on this list, and it's his business to know
this kind of stuff, but what about the rest of us!!!???
It was Arthur Knapp who first brought this method to light, to my
recollection (although Jon Pugh may well have mentioned it before I
knew
what was what). I just picked it up here on this list - it was
discussed
many times.
Yes. I remember thinking 'what's this ktxt thing that Arthur's on
about, it sounds significant', then filing it away with other AS
esoterica that seldom impinges upon those of us who stumble around the
lower foothills of the slopes of scripting's Mount Olympus.
When Paul posted a reminder of Arthur's handler previously, on Sept
18th 2002, (Re: Unicode to Plain Text) I thought it important enough to
keep, but I could not possibly have known then that it would hold the
key to fixing a bunch of scripts that would break in OS X 10.3 (still
more than a year away) when the then current version was 10.2.1
(issued, coincidentally, on the same day as Paul's reminder).
Even when the bugs started to bite, it wasn't immediately clear that
Arthur's handler contained the necessary repellant - especially when
the System Events dictionary claimed that the creator type property
required unicode text, and the only clue to why the script was failing
was the error message that some data couln't be made into the expected
type. At one point I had convinced myself that the script was failing
because somewhere along the way it was converting the unicode input to,
er, 'ordinary' text - I even tried to insert a routine to convert it
back to unicode, which is surely a textbook example of an exercise in
futility.
Is this one a bug, Chris E. ?
Regards,
Nick
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