I've run into a weird problem which I can*not*, for the life of me, understand or solve. Let me explain, in hopes that *somebody* out there can clue me in...
I'm working with MetaCard 2.4.1, running under MacOS 9.0.2 (it serves my needs, what can I say?). I have a stack with a custom property called "AdMailTemplate". This property contains a file. I know it's *in* there, because the statement "answer the length of (the AdMailTemplate of this stack)" gives me the length of the file... but "answer (the AdMailTemplate of this stack)" gives me *nothing*. I've tried using base64Encode on the file before storing it in the property, and base64Decode after retrieving the stored file. This was a partial success; "answer (the AdMailTemplate of this stack)" no longer gives me bupkiss, but it base64Decodes to nothing. What the heck is going on here? Why should a custom property behave like that? Is it possible that there's something weird about the content of said custom property which MetaCard doesn't like? Would it make any difference if the file contains nulls and/or other funky characters? Is it possible that the file's bytes have coincidentally copied some portion of the MC2.4.1 stack file format? I sure hope this is a known flavor of bug with a known solution, that someone can say "You need to do X" and it's fixed. If more information is needed, I will send a copy of the stack (via private email) to anyone who asks. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
