Greetings...
You can add a dividing line in a option menu (a button who's menuMode is set to
option) on the Mac by simply putting a - into a line in the button's text.
How do you get a dividing line on Windows? All I get is the dash.
Thanks in advance,
Greetings!
I have the following script in a button:
on mouseUp
put 0 into i
repeat 3
add 1 to i
put (testStack_ i) into sName
new stack sName
delete stack sName
end repeat
end mouseUp
Two questions:
(1) Why would this start to slow down? It starts off quite fast,
Hey...
I am writing compressed XML data to file on a server using the put command.
Every now and then, I get a report from a user that when they go to read the
data, they are getting an error. When I look on the server, the file is gone!
Not empty, not zero K... just gone - nonexistent!
Corruption. I
can think of another way: File was not saved where you thought it was saved.
Yet another way: User or app appears to have saved the file but in reality,
didn't.
Bob
On Jun 2, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Dan Friedman wrote:
Hey...
I am writing compressed XML data to file
Bob,
I am using the put because I am writing to a ftp web server. So I need to
pass a username and password.
How would I rename the file on a remote server? Also, how would you suggest I
go about this? I could end up in a endless error check...
rename the original file
write the data
if
The server I am using that currently MANY, MANY, MANY of my users are writing
to via ftp (in my standalone), changed this morning to FTPeS. I am now getting:
error 421 Sorry, cleartext sessions are not accepted on this server.
Can rev support FTPeS?? I am about to get a few thousand
Greetings,
My standalone is is throwing some errors that I can't seem to figure out. The
errors are being thrown because I included the Bug Reports option when I
generated the standalone. Here is the error:
Mark (and others),
Thanks for the info. Here's some more...
The stack is not password protected. I did use normal quotes (it wouldn't
compile if I hadn't), the debugger presents quotes as single-quotes in it's
errors. And, currentTarget is a valid pointer to a field. The stack wouldn't
Ola...
I am reading a stack from a website in a standalone application. 99.99% of my
clients are fine. However, every now and then, they report this error (which
is the result):
socket timeout ###.###.###.##:80|6924
Now, I get everything ([IP]:[port]) except, what does the 6924
Hello...
Is there a way to have an icon on a button and have the label centered, but not
under the button? I know if you set the textStyle to left or right, then the
icon is centered. But, if you set the textStyle to centered, then the text
lies below the icon.
My goal is to use a custom
Greeting!
Is there a revWeb user guide? I can't seem to find one in the Docs or online.
I have experimented with it and there are some things you can't do (or I am
doing wrong) in revWeb that you can in a standalone. It would be nice to have
some documentation, or at least a list of things
Hiya...
Isn't the put command blocking? I find that if I call a 'put' to write to a
server twice in fast succession, the second 'put' is handled BEFORE the first
one is complete. For example:
I made a new stack with this script:
on doSave
put
Greetings!
I have a standalone that opens stacks that are posted on a website. Most of
the time it works great! But, sometimes I get an error like this:
error 624,664,1
490,662,1
253,661,1
Anyone have a clue as to what this means?
Thank you in advance,
is taking to long.
So, my question is what EXACTLY is going on during this wait? Is it waiting
for a response while attempting to connect? Is it waiting for a response after
writing data?
Thank you!
Dan Friedman
CEO, ClearVision Technologies, Inc.
Voice: 909/484-2052
Fax: 866/620-4796
Greetings!
Many of my users are reporting that my application is throwing this error (I
have the debug options on when I created the standalone):
Type: wait: aborted
Object: button 'revLibURL' of group 'revLibraries' of card 'card id
1002'
of stack
Hello...
How do you move and object and resize it at the same time? I want to
do this with multiple objects at the same time.
For example, I want to move an image from point A to point B while
increasing the size along the way. I know the move command will
take care of the move, but
this is not an
issue with any other application they have.
Is there a issue with Rev apps and WorkGroup Manager? Is there a bug in
WorkGroup Manager? I did a Google search and can't find anything on this
issue.
Anyone have any thoughts/advice?
Thank you!
Dan Friedman
CEO, ClearVision Technologies
Devin,
Got any ideas what could cause this?
-Dan
I don't think it would be a Workgroup Manager problem. It doesn't do
anything special; it would be just like doing a chmod from the command
line.
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young
Greetings!
Currently, my application writes data to a server using the put command:
put someData into url (ftp://uName:pw...@123.45.6.78/folder/file.txt;)
A client is requesting that I not use clear text for the username/password.
To do this, do I use the encrypt command? If so, how is
, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Dan Friedman dan at
clearvisiontech.comwrote:
Greetings!
Currently, my application writes data to a server using the put command:
put someData into url (ftp://uName:pw...@123.45.6.78/folder/file.txt;)
A client is requesting that I not use clear text
Greetings.
If I type answer printer in the message box with the default printer set
to a HP LaserJet 1022n, Revolution 3.0 crashes. Rev 2.5.1 does not.
Anyone experience this or know of a workaround?
Thank you in advance,
Dan
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Greetings,
My [rev] application uses custom fonts. We use the ellipsis character as a
check mark. This has been working fine for many years. However, with MAC
OS version 10.5, the character is being displayed as an actual ellipsis ,
not a check mark. However, if I enter a check mark
Mark,
Thanks for the response. Here's what I did (on 10.5):
repeat with i = 1 to 256
put i tab numToChar(i) into line i of tempData
end repeat
put tempData into field 1 --set to my custom font
The check came on line 195
The ellipse came on line 201
I then ran the SAME routine on a 10.4 Mac:
Robert,
Sorry, I should have quoted the entire thread. This is custom font where
the ellipsis is replaced with a check. So, the absence of the ellipsis is
correct.
The issue is that on 10.5, the character is showing up in the wrong place!
-Dan
The check came on line 195
The ellipse came
Greetings!
I have an standalone application that I am importing data into. The data is
being imported into an array. The data is just text - formatted as XML.
Each record being imported is pretty small - about 20 lines containing [on
average] about 365 characters.
The application processes the
Greeting!
Does anyone know how to use the Bug Reports section of the Standalone
Application Settings window?
I am testing a new application and I have the Include Error Reporting
Dialog option checked in my standalone, but all it's displaying is
Execution Error. Is there a way to get more
Question
Does the socketTimeoutInterval effect the Get or Put commands when
reading/writing to an ftp/http url? If not, is there a way to adjust the
timeout length of these commands?
Thanks.
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Within one of my rather long routines, I am doing a simple get of a text
file off my website. When I run this routine, rev (2.9.0) seems to hang on
this line of code. It's not locked up... And I can command-period to get
out of it. It also acts this way in a
Greetings!
If I'm using Revolution standalones on a series of clients, and I want to
store semi-large to large amounts of data on a server and allow multiple
users access to this data simultaneously, is my ONLY choice MySQL - on a
server that allows remote SQL data access? Are there any other
I read that Valentina is a single user database. From page 251 of the
Revolution user guide:
Valentina is a fast, efficient single-user database engine for
Mac OS X, and Windows systems.
I went to Valentina's web site, but yicks! I can't make heads or tails out
of any of it!
-Dan
You can make a Rev standalone and run it from the internet on Windows, no
problem! Is there a way to do this on a Mac?
Thanks,
Dan
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Devin,
No, no... Not a stack, an application! Basically, we're replicating a web
app with no install.
On Windows, I can put http://www.mydomain.com/myapp.exe; in a web browser
and run it (ya have to click run). Can you do something similar for the
Mac - where no install is needed, or player.
Greetings!
My goal is to get information/data from iTunes. (i.e. the current song, the
next song, current song's album artwork, etc.) On the Mac, this is a snap
with the do tScript as appleScript command. However, on Windows (Rev
version 2.9) I am having trouble
The VB Script I am using
Ken,
I was using Windows Vista and it was failing. So, after reading your
response, I tried the launch document with Windows XP - and it worked.
Frustrated and tired, I shut everything off and called it a night. This
morning, with a fresh cup of coffee, I sat down in front of my computer to
Does anyone know why this doesn¹t work? I can¹t seem to get a PDF to open
(in Acrobat) on Windows. Rev is doing it successfully in their docs (they
have a revGoPFD command that I can¹t trace into. They are calling it from
mouseUp in the script of card ³User Guide² of stack
Greetings! This isn't really a revolution question, but... It's easy to
get the album art from iTunes on a Mac with AppleScript. Anyone know how to
get the album art from iTunes on a Windows computer?
Thank you in advance,
-Dan
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Hello -
I have some Unicode text (Vietnamese) in a field. The characters are
displaying and printing correctly. The textFont is set to ,Unicode.
However, when Revolution wraps this text, it is splitting the words in half.
An English equivalent would be:
Hello!
Can anyone tell me what exactly happens when you ask for information about a
stackfile that is not open? For example, say on your desktop you have a
stackfile named testStack.rev and you call this:
put the customKeys of stack /Users/Jimbo/Desktop/testStack.rev
Rev WILL report the
Anyone experienced anything like this... I have a client that claims ever
since he upgraded to Office 2007 (on his WindowsXP computer), my application
(a Revolution Standalone) crash when you issue a answer file, answer
folder or ask file command. Perhaps Office 2007 has modified the OS's
dialog
Greetings...
CRASH! Anyone have any thoughts??
I have one field on a stack.
I have set the textFont of the field to ,Unicode.
I have pasted some Vietnamese text into this field.
The text looks perfect on screen. I choose Print, and CRASH! Any
thoughts?
Mac OS 10.4.9
Rev 2.7.4 (and 2.8.0)
Greetings!
Has anyone found a good solution for installing full applications on
Windows? My app has multiple file types, file extensions and icons. I have
fonts to install as well and adding the application to the Start menu and
file associations.
In the past I have used InstallShield. Ug...
How is this possible? Put this in the message box:
put 078e-16703 = 084E-11702
Revolution (2.6.1) returns true. Any advise?
Thank you in advance,
Dan
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In case your interested, here is the work-around I came up with for the
problem:
---
put equalStrings(078e-16703,084E-11702)
function equalStrings string1,string2
if length(string1) = length(string2) then
if string1 is in string2 then
return
Sivakatirswami,
Try this...
send menuPick Working Guide to btn Help
Hope that helps.
-Dan
I would like to have a script in one menu button on one card (A),
take the user to another card (b) and trigger a menu choice on a
button on Card B
This seemed to be obvious enough:
-- pull
Jon,
When you use the statement:
get url ftp://a.b.c/d.txt;
The url is placed into the local variable it. Therefore you can access
the contents by simply getting it (put it into tUrlData). Or, just put
the url into your own variable. For example:
put url ftp://a.b.c/d.txt; into urlData.
function endlessRanting revUserAction
switch revUserAction
case Whining
put 20 into minutesWasted
put 0 into amountLearned
put 0 into numFriendsMade
break
case Ranting
put 10 into minutesWasted
put 0 into amountLearned
put 0 into numFriendsMade
break
case
Greetings!
Has anyone come up with a decent way to deal with piracy? I'm getting ready
to release a commercial application and wondered if there is anyway to stop
someone from just giving it to a friend.
[I would like my application to function off-line. So, doing a look-up via
the web is
Hi all!
Anyone got a handle on making an icon file (ico) for use when making a
standalone in Rev 2.5? It would seem easiest to simply edit the
genericapp.ico in the Sample Icons folder. But, what application do
you use to edit it?
Thank you in advance,
Dan
Hi all!
Anyone got a handle on making an icon file (ico) for use when making a
standalone in Rev 2.5? It would seem easiest to simply edit the
genericapp.ico in the Sample Icons folder. But, what application do
you use to edit it?
Thank you in advance,
-Dan
Thomas,
I don't know what your project is, but thought you might want/need to know
that Rev does NOT print unicode text. I have spoken with Jacqueline and she
tells me they are working on it.
Hope this doesn't ruin your day...
-Dan
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Hello...
Does Revolution not print unicode text?
I recently upgraded Rev to version 2.5.1 and spent 2 weeks updating my
application to support Unicode. I went to test the printout and nothing
printed!! Does anyone know if there is a way to print Unicode? Or, is this
a bug? If so, anyone
Hello again...
I've been fiddling with this for days now. If you remember, my goal was to
save unicode text in a single line - while preserving returns. This is the
only way I could get it to work. Obviously, this creates a larger file on
disk. Do you see any problems with this method that
Hi folks...
Anyone know how to replace a return char in a unicode string? If you do
this:
put field 2 into jData --field 2 contains Japanese text
replace cr with cr in jData
put jData into url (file:/Users/user1/Desktop/jappTest.txt)
Then, do this:
put url
Got a question...
Is it possible to update the Rev engine in a standalone without doing a
reinstall. Let me explain:
I have a stack that I have made into a standalone. The standalone, when
launched, opens other stacks that contain the workings of my application.
Now, whenever I make changes to
Dwayne,
I'm sure there's a better way to do it, but how about this...
function makeRandomNumberList maxNumber
put 0 into i
repeat
put random(10) into thisNum
if thisNum is among the items of fNumbers then
next repeat
end if
add 1 to i
put thisNum into item i of
Greetings...
A couple of years ago, I dealt with all this cross-platform font stuff. I
got so tired of trying to work it out that I finally came up with a solution
that has worked perfectly ever since. What did I do you ask? Well, it
wasn't cheep, but I hired a fontographer to build two font
Dan,
I don't actually use rev as my installer. I wouldn't trust Rev (or my
coding) to touch someone's system... to many things could go wrong
(especially on Windoz!)
To install on OS 7/8/9, I use StuffIt InstallerMaker from Aladdin Systems,
Inc. For OSX, I use Apple's PackageMaker. For
Andre,
Yeah... I made one. It's in the User Contributions section. Look for
askList
-Dan
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 00:57:08 -0300
From: Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: anyone here implemented an answerList function?
To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL
Dave,
I have this very same problem. Here's what I do... When I get the Do you
want to save this Stack? dialog, I simply click Save and move on. It may
be a little annoying, but in my opinion, it's not worth spending over 12
hours on. Revolution is an amazing product! I certainly hope you
Dave,
Your absolutely right - without question, RR should fix this issue. I guess
I'm more lenient about small issues like this. I get upset about the big
issues. Several years ago there was a bug in the toolTip property. If you
had a toolTip assigned to ANY object, the standalone would crash
Dave,
1 ( 2). How do I get the Quit and Preferences Menu Items to work
correctly on MacOS Classic and X?
Thanks a lot, I'll give this a try. But is there no document that
describes how to do this? Also why is the readme file wrong??
It is documented. I found it by searching for quit in
Dave,
I'm not a Revolution pro, but hope this helps...
1 ( 2). How do I get the Quit and Preferences Menu Items to work
correctly on MacOS Classic and X?
It took me a while to figure this one out... but, here's what works for me.
Put this in the stack script of your main stack (of course
Good morning!
Does anyone have a routine for typing in a field and displaying bullets -
but preserving the text? As if it was a password field. I am making a user
login window with Username and Password fields. Don't you think the
password field should display bullets (or asterisks)? I could
Yves,
Thanks! That works great. Don't you just love this list?!!!
Good morning!
Does anyone have a routine for typing in a field and displaying
bullets -
but preserving the text? As if it was a password field. I am making
a user
login window with Username and Password fields.
Rob,
Let me also welcome you to Revolution! When I add text to list fields, I
usually want to hilite the new line of text. So, here's what I do:
on addALineOfText someText, fieldName
put the number of lines in field fieldName into nLine
put someText into line nLine+1 of field fieldName
Malte,
When my son was born, my father-in-law said It best...
The new boss is in town! :)
Congratulations on the addition to the Brill family!
-Dan
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Richard,
I wouldn't have much use for it... I already have a CODE/DLL/Bundle that I
use in Rev for spell checking.
-Dan
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:31:04 -0800
From: Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Apple spelling checker?
To: Rev Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID:
Mark,
I keep the Show Handler List (found in the View menu) option on. It
displays a list of the script's handlers and keeps the active handler
highlighted.
Hope that helps,
Dan
In a script window, is there any way to automatically know what handler you
are in the middle of (i.e. without
Tim,
Thanks for the head's up!
If all you want to do is check the existence of a file, ever think of using
If there is a file tFilePath then instead of open file tFilePath for
read? This way you don't have to worry about changes in the engine.
Just a thought...
-Dan
Hello listers!
I
I just put in my User Guide: If you change your screen's resolution, you
will need to restart the application. -- problem solved.
Of course, 99.9% of my users (like most everyone's users) didn't know you
could change the resolution!!
Just a thought,
-Dan
Jacqueline,
OK, but the end
Tom,
Here's a thought... If the user is going to change resolutions while your
program is running, then unless they change the resolution from the menubar,
they will have to leave the application. You could create a
checkForResChange() function in a resume message.
Just a thought...
-Dan
How would you do this...
On a card, you have a bunch of buttons that are grouped together (group
ButtonGroup). You want to let the user move the buttons around - but you
want to prevent any of the buttons from overlaping.
I have this in the card script to handle the movement:
on mouseMove
if
Ken,
As usual, you always come to the aid of others. Thanks! This seems to work
great!
-Dan
Here's a replacement function - it's a little messy (because I have to
wrap 'whatText' in spaces at the beginning and strip them at the end),
but it works:
Hello all!
I'm having a problem with a function that Ken Ray helped me with. I tried
to fix it myself, but I don't really understand the matchChunk function.
The goal is to pass searchAndReplaceMaleToFemale() whatText and return a
female version of whatText. But it's not quite working
Byron,
Try this... (This assumes that you pass a movie path without the drive
name/letter, and the CD (for the Mac) is named myCDROM)...
put getMoviePath(datafiles/movies/movie001.mov) into mPath
function getMoviePath fileName
if the platform = MacOS then
if there is a file
I did find a work-around... Just set the size of the stack to be the drawer
before you open it:
Set the height of stack drawerStack to (the height of stack Main - 50)
Drawer stack drawerStack at left of stack Main
At 10:00 AM +1000 9/3/2003, David Vaughan wrote:
However, what if you want to
I do not use it and never thought it was a valuable feature.
-Dan
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Is there a way to have a web page either:
(1) save it's self, so it's user editable fields can be read later?; or
(2) have the web page read a text file and populate it's fields. Then save
the user editable fields back to the text file?
If either of these options is possible, how would you go
I had the same problems! I got so tired of messing with it that I finally
hired an outside source to create matching Mac and Windows fonts (serif, and
san-serif). They look and behave EXACTLY the same on both platforms. It
wasn't cheep, but my cross-platform font problems have gone away!
-Dan
Ken,
Yes, it worked perfect!! Also, just for fun, I tried setting the target
stack to invisible, and it worked too!!
Thank you Ken!
Message: 11
From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Save as Image
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:05:55 -0500
Organization: Sons of
Has anyone discovered a way to save a stack (or portion of a stack) as an
image while the stack is either offscreen or invisible? If so, I'd sure
love to hear how ya did it!
Thanks,
Dan
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Andy,
Just insert your own counter:
on checkItemCount
put 0 into tCounter
repeat for each line gameLine in fld gamelist
add 1 to tCounter
if the number of items in gameLine 5 then
answer (something)
set the hilitedLines of field gameList to tCounter
exit
Ron,
I had the same type of problem with one of my OSX externals. I don't know
if this will help, but here's what I did:
First, I had the external re-compiled as a bundle (from the code that was
used to make the original CODE resource and DLL). So, it was now named
Spell.bundle. I placed
Greetings...
I use a 'CODE' resource in my standalone ('DLL' for windows). PPC and
Windows works fine. But, what do I do for OSX? There is no place in the
standalone builder to add a resource file.
Being a OSX novice, I could use some assistance/guidance.
Thanks!
-Dan
Ubaldo,
In the script of stack A put:
On openStack
open stack file path to stack B
End openStack
It's that easy. You could also put it in a startUp message, or in the
openCard script of card 1 of stack A.
Hope that helps. -Dan
Sorry for this very basic question and if this has already
Has anyone figured out how to read and write unicode text?
I opened the unicodeFldRoutines.rev stack and tried to save field
jpTargetFld to a text file and read it back in... But I can't seem to get
it to work.
Has anyone been able to do this? Or have ya got any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
-Dan
Greetings...
The Goal: To determine if the user is opening a file from a floppy disk.
Proposed Solution: The only thing I can think to do this is to use the
capacity of the disk. If it's less than 2MB, I can assume it's a floppy.
Do you agree?
Now, there is no diskSize function that I know
Dear RR and fellow Revolutionaries,
I just wanted to take a moment to say Thank You to Jeanne and the entire
RR crew for your continued work on the RR Documentation. 97 out of 100
times, I can find the answer to my questions from the documentation. Unlike
many programs you get today, the RR
I opened a stack created in 1.1.1 in 2.0. All the buttons that were set as
Standard appear as if they were 1.1.1's Rectangle buttons. And the
Rectangle buttons don't have the same appearance as a new rectangle
button. If I delete the original button and create a new one it's fine.
Can any tell
Ken,
I found Shao Sean's libSMTP library on the user contributions list... This
is what I'm looking for! My only problem is that it takes 28 seconds to
send an eMail with a 5307 byte text file attachment. From Outlook (with the
same attachment and message), it took about 2 seconds.
I wrote an
Hello,
Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong...
I have a dll that I want to call. The script that communicates with the DLL
is the main stack. I have set the destroyWindow of the stack to true and I
have set the externals of the stack to myDLL.dll (I can't use a hard coded
path because I don't
Jack,
Thanks... But this doesn't solve the problem. *I* want to include the
attachment in the eMail. I know that I could have the user add the
attachment, but since I know what file needs to be sent, I would like to, at
runtime, set that parameter.
Thanks,
Dan
Here's a button script that
Paolo Mazza,
Try:
On mouseUp
ask file Save File As:
End mouseUp
How can I get a dialog similar to the save as dialog where user can choose a
folder and write the name of a file.
Using answer folder I can not insert the name of a file.
Ciao Paolo Mazza
Fellow Revolutionaries,
Let's say field A contains more text than can fit in it. The text in field
A contains multiple fonts, styles and sizes. How can I get the stylized
text that is not being displayed? (and remove it from field A and put it
into field B)
I tried messing with the
Fellow Revolutionaries...
Anyone experienced any problems with revPrintField on windows?
When I run this in a RR standalone on my Mac, it works fine:
On mouseUp
revShowPrintDialog true,true
revPrintField the name of field aField
End mouseUp
However, on Windows, it does nothing. And, the
Vikram,
In the following you mentioned clipboarddata[rtf]. I don't see any thing
about clipboarddata in the docs. What is this? What does it do? Where
can I get details on what it is?
Thanks!
Dan
I can't talk of the benefits of exporting rtf as files, but if you are
copy-pasting from
Igor,
On the Mac, use resEdit to create a res file with a BNDL resource. In the
BNDL, create an entry for each of your document types (you will need to
create the icons too - ic18, ic14, ics8, ics4, ics#, ICN#). You will also
have to create the FREF resource (but I think resEdit will create
Richard,
You could also use copy obj to dest option or the clone command to
replicate objects without disturbing the clipboard.
Thank you so much for the suggestion! It worked beautifully!
- Dan
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Whoops... I spoke to soon.
I have a stack with 6 cards -- Stack groupTemp.
On each card is a group. The group on each card is named the same
objGroup
So, I do:
Go card X of stack groupTemp
Copy group objGroup of card X of stack groupTemp to card 1 of stack
myStack
Now, if we are on card 1 of
Hello!
My standalone contains several stacks files. During the course of activity
in my standalone, I copy objects from one stack to another. I want to
preserve the clipboard text during the copy/paste of objects. Here are the
calls I am using to save the clipboard text:
on aLongRoutine
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