Attempting to see if there is a hack to help Leigh in the short-term, I ran
this in J7:
clipwrite 'Hello.',(255{a.),'world.'
and got this exception in "jconsole":
Unhandled exception at 0x6c38d64d in jconsole.exe: 0xC0000005: Access
violation reading location 0x00000000.
I don't think I care that much about the actual error but it would be nice
if it were caught. Interestingly,
clipwrite a.
doesn't seem to cause a problem though the clipboard does not appear to
change contents after this.
It also appears that clipboard usage doesn't work when I'm running jconsole
under emacs as is my wont. In fact, if I load the gtk routines ("load
'gtk'") in this mode, my first attempt to use "clipwrite" gives five error
messages and a subsequent attempt gives two and locks up my J session,
requiring me to break out and kill it. I guess this is no different from
lack of "wd" under jconsole in J6 but I had my hopes that it would be.
I've actually been toying with some VBA to move data in and out of Excel by
using files to avoid use of the clipboard. If I have the patience to do a
good job with this, I'll make it available. I wonder if VBA could use
sockets?
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:54 PM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is a bug. I believe it may have been in J6, but in any case, the problem
> is that the J7 definition was copied from J6 without testing this.
>
> In the definition, there is a toHOST that converts the LF separator into
> CRLF. This causes the problem, and should be removed.
>
> I have a fix that will be put up this weekend.
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Leigh J. Halliwell <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > Dear J Forum:
> >
> > When I excute the j701 the sentence " clipwrite 2 6 $ 'Hello,world.' "
> and
> > paste it into Excel, it pastes as three vertical cells, as:
> "Hello,"/{empty
> > cell}/"world." This never happened in j602. Why am I getting the extra
> > line feed, and how can I get rid of it? I'm running Excel 2003 on 32-bit
> > Windows XP. Thank you.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Leigh
> >
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