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/MacClassic/AppleScript/AppleScript with Unicode


Required plugins for this example: MBS MacClassic Plugin

You find this example project in your Plugins Download as a Xojo project file within the examples folder: /MacClassic/AppleScript/AppleScript with Unicode

This example is the version from Wed, 27th Oct 2020.

Project "AppleScript with Unicode.xojo_binary_project"
MenuBar Menu
MenuItem UntitledMenu3 = ""
MenuItem UntitledMenu2 = "File"
MenuItem FileQuit = "Quit"
MenuItem UntitledMenu7 = ""
MenuItem UntitledMenu0 = "Edit"
MenuItem EditUndo = "Undo"
MenuItem UntitledMenu1 = "-"
MenuItem EditCut = "Cut"
MenuItem EditCopy = "Copy"
MenuItem EditPaste = "Paste"
MenuItem EditClear = "Clear"
MenuItem UntitledMenu6 = ""
MenuItem UntitledMenu5 = ""
MenuItem UntitledMenu4 = ""
End MenuBar
Class App Inherits Application
EventHandler Sub Open() dim a as AppleScriptMBS dim b as AppleScriptMBS dim t as TextConverter dim s as String a=new AppleScriptMBS if not a.CanUnicodeText then MsgBox "We need Apple Script 1.3 or newer for Unicode text handling." end if a.UnicodeText=true // use it // compile this source code s="display dialog ""Hello World!""" // MsgBox str(lenb(s)) // 29 t=GetTextConverter(GetTextEncoding(0),GetTextEncoding(256)) s=t.convert(s) // MsgBox str(lenb(s)) // 58 if it's now unicode (16bit, not UTF8!) a.Compile s b=new AppleScriptMBS // now we copy the binary code to another object b.Binary=a.Binary // and run it b.Execute // now decompile s=b.Source MsgBox str(lenb(s)) // 29 if returned as MacRoman and 58 if returned as Unicode MsgBox s Quit End EventHandler
End Class
ExternalFile info
End ExternalFile
End Project

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