Re: styled text to record, ok. But record to styled text?
Re: styled text to record, ok. But record to styled text?
- Subject: Re: styled text to record, ok. But record to styled text?
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:47:33 -0800
At 11:38p +0100 01/23/2004, Emmanuel didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:
At 8:57 PM +0000 23/01/04, Nigel Garvey wrote:
>Is this any good?
>
> set a to "set fred to the clipboard"
> set b to <<data
>styl000500000000000D000A00030100000AEFEF1F1F1D1D00000003000D000A00030000000
>A00000000000000000009000D000A00030100000AEFEF1F1F1D1D0000000B000D000A000300
>00000A0000000000000000000C000D000A00030000000A2F2F8B8B2020>>
>
> set the clipboard to {<<class ktxt>>:a, <<class ksty>>:b}
> the clipboard
It's interesting, but...
>Usual warning about the chevrons.
.... and about the size limit
...if there's a size limit, I can't use it. Because I don't know in
advance how long the styled text string might be.
Christopher Stone sent me an email illustrating that a *list* would
work, although it requires special handling due to returning
{styledtext} upon reconversion (i.e., it becomes a 1-item list:
{text,styl} -> {stxt}). But since writing as list is special-cased
anyway, then un-listing afterwards just goes along with that.
Of course now I'm wondering which other seemingly-basic data types
would need similar special casing...
(and usual grins for the hilarious error message associated).
Emmanuel
Whassat?
-boo
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