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From: rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: 48SX/Mac GROBer bug?
Keywords: Macintosh GROB GROBer bug HP48SX
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.190907.10954@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 19:09:07 GMT
References: <1990Nov1.234036.1041@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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In article <1990Nov1.234036.1041@rodan.acs.syr.edu> rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes) writes:
>I have the Mac interface and am having some trouble with the GROBer
>software...

I developed a vague memory of age-old bug reports that indicate not all Mac
programs put 100% correct stuff into the clipboard when you cut an image. 
So...

Using the application I used before (Ultrapaint), I first verified the bug
I reported previously.  Then I pasted the image into a Canvas document.  I
cut it from there and tried running that through GROBer.  It worked.

Conclusion: Canvas and Ultrapaint store image information to the clipboard
differently.  The image appears correct in the clipboard window in GROBer,
but the Ultrapaint image results in a garbled GROB; the Canvas one does not.
Hard to say whether the bug is in Ultrapaint or GROBer, though note that the
image IS imported correctly by Canvas.

This is all the weirder considering Deneba publishes both Canvas and
Ultrapaint.


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 - Rich Holmes                                  rich@suhep.bitnet
   Syracuse U. Physics Dept.                    rich@suhep.phy.syr.edu
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