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

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Great!

Could you provide a download link to the new version?

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Ronald P. Regensburg <ron...@xs...>wrote:

> I tested the new extension, again in a build with the fix by Alexei
> and in a build without that fix.
>
> The crash with SimpleText is gone. In both builds, the copy/paste
> behaviour is identical with or without the extension loaded, both
> within MacOS and between MacOS and MacOSX, for the applications I
> tested before (Tex-Edit Plus, AppleWorks, and SimpleText). The serious
> problems that were originally reported are solved by Alexei's fix.
>
> The extension offers a solution for a different problem, a problem
> that I did not know existed. It does indeed enable copy and paste
> between MacOS Stickies and MacOSX in both directions (plain text only).
>
> Ronald.
>
>
> Op 19 okt 2009, om 06:34 heeft Joshua Juran het volgende geschreven:
>
> > On Oct 18, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Ronald P. Regensburg wrote:
> >
> >> Tested the TESyncScrap extension in 9.0.4 in the older SheepShaver
> >> build and in todays build with the fix by Alexei.
> >>
> >> The extension does not change copy and paste behaviour in either
> >> build
> >> (with the most serious problems fixed in the last build as I
> >> described
> >> earlier today) but it adds a problem with SimpleText. With the
> >> extension installed, copying in SimpleText causes a system crash and
> >> subsequent SheepShaver crash, thus preventing the only way one can
> >> copy from within SheepShaver and paste in MacOSX.
> >
> > Thanks for your report.  I was able to reproduce the crash and
> > determine the cause.[1]  I've uploaded a new version that fixes the
> > problem.
> >
> > TESyncScrap
> > http://jjuran.dyndns.org/~jjuran/experimental/TESyncScrap.mbin<http://jjuran.dyndns.org/%7Ejjuran/experimental/TESyncScrap.mbin>
> >
> > Apparently some applications (including SimpleText) have taken their
> > own measures to deal with the issue.  I tested the scrap
> > synchronization behavior of several TextEdit-based applications with
> > and without TESyncScrap installed:
> >
> > Without TESyncScrap:
> >
> > BBEdit width  both synced
> > SimpleText    both synced
> > Finder 9.0    both synced
> > Finder 7.5.6  synced paste (copy empties the OS X pasteboard)
> > Get Info      synced paste (copy empties the OS X pasteboard)
> > Notepad       synced copy
> > Stickies      nil
> >
> > * 'Finder' refers to the Finder's filename editor
> > * 'Get Info refers to the filename and comment fields in the Finder's
> > Get Info windows
> > * SimpleText and Stickies' respective behavior is unchanged between
> > System 7.6.1 (in Basilisk II) and Mac OS 9.0.4
> > * BBEdit 5.1, Edit->Preferences->Editor->Wrap To->Width
> >
> > With TESyncScrap installed, Notepad and Stickies synchronize in both
> > directions, but the Finder is unaffected.
> >
> > TESyncScrap only affects TextEdit-based fields (and not e.g. WASTE
> > editors), and only solves the problem of a layer switch being
> > required to synchronize the scrap.  The Finder is not an exception
> > here, since after switching to another application inside the
> > emulator pasting to OS X still fails.  Perhaps the Finder is putting
> > another scrap flavor after 'TEXT' and it's running afoul of the
> > ZeroScrap() issue.
> >
> > [1] The templates I use for trap patches need to generate glue for
> > each patch installed.  After refactoring the code earlier this year,
> > the glue was generated only for each *function* used as a patch.
> > Since TESyncScrap uses the same function to patch TECut() and TECopy
> > (), and TECut() was installed later, TECopy()'s patch glue got
> > munged.  The glue is now unique per trap/function pair.
> >
> >>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Joshua Juran <jj...@gm...>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> On Oct 18, 2009, at 6:50 AM, Ronald P. Regensburg wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I built SS MacOSX from current CVS (Intel only and I forgot to
> >>> reverse
> >>>> the SDL-audio patch).
> >>>>
> >>>> Clearly improved (tested with AppleWorks, Tex-Edit Plus and
> >>> SimpleText
> >>>> in MacOS9):
> >>>> - Copying and pasting of styled text between different applications
> >>>> within MacOS9 in SheepShaver works (when copied from SimpleText,
> >>>> styles are lost)
> >>>> - Copying and pasting of styled text from MacOSX to MacOS9 in
> >>>> SheepShaver works (with anomalies when pasted in SimpleText)
> >>>> - Copying and pasting from MacOS9 in SheepShaver to MacOSX works
> >>> only
> >>>> when copied from a SimpleText document and with styles lost.
> >>>
> >>> One of the issues you and others may have run into is the latency
> >>> occurring between use of the TextEdit scrap and synchronization with
> >>> the desk scrap, i.e. the clipboard.  Prior to Carbon, developers
> >>> were
> >>> instructed to synchronize the two scraps on layer switch -- when an
> >>> application became or ceased to be frontmost.  The problem with this
> >>> approach is that it doesn't play well with screen-in-a-window
> >>> arrangements where switching to another app in OS X doesn't cause an
> >>> OS 9 layer switch and consequently gets stale clipboard data.
> >>>
> >>> I've written a system extension called TESyncScrap that patches
> >>> TECut
> >>> () and TECopy() to flush the TE scrap and TEPaste() to update it.  I
> >>> invite you to try it out and see if it's useful.  The source code is
> >>> also available.[1]
> >>>
> >>> TESyncScrap
> >>> http://jjuran.dyndns.org/~jjuran/experimental/TESyncScrap.mbin<http://jjuran.dyndns.org/%7Ejjuran/experimental/TESyncScrap.mbin>
> >>>
> >>> TESyncScrap.cc
> >>> <http://github.com/jjuran/metamage_1/blob/
> >>> bd25287ac1551371da0fcf4fd9815b5d14e707db/pedestal/Hacks/TESyncScrap/
> >>> TESyncScrap.cc>
> >>>
> >>> You'll need a MacBinary decoder.  There are several in the
> >>> 'experimental' directory.
> >>>
> >>> Josh
> >>>
> >>> [1] The location may move as things get reorganized, but it will
> >>> remain on github.
> >
> >
> >
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