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: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 12:27:38 +0000
Walter Ian Kaye wrote on Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:36:10 -0800:
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At 01:57a +0000 01/25/2004, Nigel Garvey didst inscribe upon an
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electronic papyrus:
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> >I really do wish I could store the datatypes directly, without a list
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> >wrapper.
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>I certainly agree as far as styled text is concerned. :-) Testing in
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>10.2.8, so far I've had no trouble with text, Unicode Text, lists,
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>records, dates, aliases, integers, or reals. But only in the case of text
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>is is the 'as' parameter optional when reading and the type class
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>specified has to be precisely the same as the class of the saved item.
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>'As number' doesn't work. So far, I've only found that styled text,
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>booleans, Wednesdays, and other items whose class is 'class' need to be
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>"enlisted". I haven't tried application-specific classes yet.
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Thanks for testing!
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I figure 'picture' oughta work raw/plain, and it's easy to get a PICT
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into a variable... but how would I test TIFF picture? It oughta work
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raw/plain, eh?
That's a bit beyond my ken. There are AS classes called 'picture' and
'TIFF picture'. Both can be accurately retrieved from a file by reading
'as picture' or 'as TIFF picture' (as relevant). The first four bytes
values of a 'picture' written to file appear to be 0, 0, 0, 0. The
equivalent values for a 'TIFF picture' are 77, 77, 0, 42. Beyond that I
don't know and Script Editor keeps seizing up when I get too ambitious
trying to find out. ;-)
NG
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