[B2-devel] Tex-Edit Plus copy/paste problem in SS and B2 MacOSX

[Ronald P. R. <ron...@xs...>]

This month, in the thread "[Patch] Use default ROM when ROM path  
preference is blank", "Lew Irwin/Studio Briefing" reported a problem  
while copying/pasting from HTML Pro into Tex-Edit Plus. Trying to  
paste resulted in the message: "Apple Event error. Perhaps AppleScript  
is installed improperly. Error:-1702." He also mentioned that Tex-Edit  
Plus would bring up the same error attempting to open any Tex-Edit  
Plus document.

I could reproduce the error consistently, while copying text from Tex- 
Edit Plus (4.1.3) and pasting again into a Tex-Edit Plus document.

Dragging text between two open Tex-Edit Pro documents worked fine.

I could not reproduce the error by opening a Tex-Edit Plus document.

This is in 9.0.4 in any of my SheepShaver UB builds (July 2008, March  
2009, July 2009, August 2009, October 2009) in Leopard on Intel. The  
problem does not occur in the May 2006 release version by Gwenole  
Beauchesne. I do not know when the problem could have been introduced,  
I do not have any builds between May 2006 and July 2008.


The problem appears to occur only with certain applications and seems  
to be related somehow to text styles.

The problem does not occur when copying and pasting between SimpleText  
and AppleWorks and vice versa. The problem does also not occur when  
copying in AppleWorks and next pasting in Tex-Edit Plus. The text is  
pasted normally and with the correct text styles.

When copying in SimpleText and pasting into Tex-Edit Plus, the text is  
copied but styles are lost.

When copying in Tex-Edit Plus and next pasting into Tex-Edit Plus, the  
error message appears and no text seems to be pasted. However, the  
insertion point in the document window moves as if text was inserted.  
The invisible text appears to be pasted indeed, it can be made visible  
by selecting the section and choosing a color style for it. All text  
styles appear to be lost.

Even stranger is what happens when copied in Tex-Edit Plus and pasted  
into a SimpleText or AppleWorks document. The text is pasted, but with  
completely different styles. For instance, plain black Geneva 12pt  
copied in Tex-Edit Plus, appears pasted in AppleWorks as grey, 255pt,  
bold, outline, underlined.

Very, very weird.


I did the same tests in 7.5.5 in BasiliskII (my October 2009 build).  
Here it was partly different:

- No problem at all while copying/pasting from and again into Tex-Edit  
Plus (same version 4.1.3 as in SheepShaver).
- Copying in SimpleText and pasting in Tex-Edit Plus again resulted in  
loss of text styles.
- Copying in Tex-Edit Plus and pasting in SimpleText resulted again in  
text styles that were completely wrong (very large size).
(I did not install AppleWorks or ClarisWorks in BasiliskII.)


Testing copying/pasting between host and SheepShaver (October 2009  
build):

- Text copied in MacOSX could be pasted (as plain text) fine in  
SimpleText, AppleWorks and Tex-Edit Plus.
- Text copied in SimpleText appeared as plain text on the MacOSX  
pasteboard
- Text copied in AppleWorks did not appear on the MacOSX pasteboard,  
but did not change its existing content either.
- Text copied in Tex-Edit Plus, on the contrary, cleared the MacOSX  
pasteboard (or put unrecognizable content onto the pasteboard).


Maybe someone can make something out of all this.


Ronald.