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

[Lew Irwin/S. B. <st...@us...>]

Where do I find your updated version of SS?

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Alexei Svitkine
<ale...@gm...>wrote:

> The bug happened as a result of the code to fix byteswap issues when
> copying to/fromMac OS X x86 host OS. I've committed some code that makes
> things a little better,
> however it's still not the ideal behavior. Let me know if the change is an
> improvement.
>
> -Alexei
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Kevin Jaques <kev...@hi...>wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I have clipboard issues with the program InControl. I am using
>> Sheepshaver 080721 UB. When I first start the program, it is able to
>> paste text copied in MacOS X applications. I can't positively say it
>> never works more than once, but I can say that is rare. I have to
>> relaunch the program, then re-copy in OS X. It's a pain, but not a
>> disaster.
>>
>> Likewise, it mostly won't copy from InControl TO Mac OS X. I can't
>> positively say it ever works. I just routinely drag-copy to the shared
>> folder, then open that and copy it in OS X.
>>
>> I use InControl daily, and once a month I use 4D. I know that 4D has
>> similar issues, but can't positively say they are exactly the same.
>> Those are the only two Classic programs that I still need or use.
>>
>>
>> On Oct. 17, 2009, at 14:09 , Ronald P. Regensburg wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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