Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-22 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
+1 On Mar 19, 2021, at 9:55 PM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: Bob: > MS Office copy operations are notoriously problematic. > Microsoft maintains their own clipboard format, so that when > switching to another product the clipboard must be

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-20 Thread e.beugelaar--- via use-livecode
on behalf of Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2021 5:55:19 AM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Cc: Curry Kenworthy Subject: Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails Bob: > MS Office copy operations are notoriously problematic. > Microsoft maintains their own clip

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-19 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Bob: > MS Office copy operations are notoriously problematic. > Microsoft maintains their own clipboard format, so that when > switching to another product the clipboard must be translated. > Other apps may do the same. > The translation does not always go to plan. Eh ... I think this is a

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-19 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
MS Office copy operations are notoriously problematic. Microsoft maintains their own clipboard format, so that when switching to another product the clipboard must be translated. Other apps may do the same. The translation does not always go to plan. Bob S On Mar 17, 2021, at 12:28 PM, Curry

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-17 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Sean: > char 1 of rawclipboarddata["CF_BITMAP"] crashes it That's simply standing on principle, which I find admirable! After all, give us a char and we'll likely take ... an image. :) But on the tech side, not surprising; char 1 of (the data). -- Paul: > I would consider this a serious

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 3/16/2021 2:38 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: even asking it to only return char 1 of rawclipboarddata["CF_BITMAP"] crashes it so any attempt to read that data triggers an exception. I would consider this a serious LC bug. Regardless of what crap another application puts on the

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-16 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 3/16/21 11:47 AM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: If any of that seems useful I can check the codebase for the exact steps. Avoiding crashes is *always* useful. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-16 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
Hey guys. There are a few issues around windows clipboard and images. I ran into them ALOT when i worked on the Toolbox application. I (reported bug also). https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21543 This probably won't help. but there were times when I had to figure out which

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-16 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
Curry, even asking it to only return char 1 of rawclipboarddata["CF_BITMAP"] crashes it so any attempt to read that data triggers an exception. Remarkable. :D Sean On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 18:16, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Sean: > > > put the

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-16 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Sean: > put the keys of the rawclipboarddata Yes, I have a little clipboard browser stack for that. There are regular, full, and raw keys. Joy awaits > or any other CF_, it crashes out of LC altogether I had that joyful experience earlier today, with my test stack. You gotta love it,

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-16 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
Curry, The issue here is that MS Word controls how that clipboard data is transferred. As an example Open the taskmanager In Word, copy an image into the clipboard In LC message box type lock the clipboard; put the keys of the rawclipboarddata Returns something like: Art::GVML