[texworks] SCRIPTS: TW.getItem() returning everything lower case?

[Paul A Norman]

I've posted on a Qt forum, so hopefully that will get us somewhere.

This as I have been saying did not work (though prior to rev 649 it does):

  sizeCommand =  TW.getItem( null, "Text/Font Size?", "Choose Text
Font/Size: ",
  ["Abcd","abcd","ABCD","ABCD","Efgh", "EFGH"] , 1 , true ) ;

And this did not work:

var optionsList = ["Abcd","abcd","ABCD","ABCD","Efgh", "EFGH"];

  sizeCommand =  TW.getItem( null, "Text/Font Size?", "Choose Text
Font/Size: ",
  optionsList , 1 , true ) ;

This bypasses the problem and **works**.
Explicit old fashioned array declaration constructor.

var optionsList = new Array("Abcd","abcd","ABCD","ABCD","Efgh", "EFGH");

sizeCommand =  TW.getItem( null, "Text/Font Size?", "Choose Text
Font/Size: ", optionsList , 1 , true ) ;

As far as I know all the above are valid ECMA.

Paul

On 9 December 2010 20:04, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2010-12-09 06:01, Paul A Norman wrote:
>> Ok more accurate osilation of problem,
>>
>> There appears to be something about the way that the lists are built
>> internally by recent versions of Qt perhaps.
>>
>> The behaviour is not fickle but seems to be predictable. It appears
>> that it actually has nothing to do with uppercase / lowercase as such.
>>
>> If items in a list are case-insensitively the same, then the first
>> occurrence of a common sequence of letters seems to typecast the rest
>> - they are all recognised as the same.
>>
>> ["ABCD", "abcd","Abcd","ABCD", "Efgh"]
>>
>> First three elements are always coming out as ABCD
>>
>>
>> [ "abcd","ABCD","Abcd","ABCD", "Efgh"]
>>
>> First three elements are always coming out as abcd
>>
>>
>> ["Abcd", "abcd","ABCD","ABCD", "Efgh"]
>>
>> First three elements are always coming out as Abcd
>>
>>
>> Efgh is always exactly as wanted, as there is no earlier occurance.
>>
>> Use this however
>>
>> ["Abcd","abcd","ABCD","ABCD","Efgh", "EFGH"]
>>
>> And try for EFGH and you'll get Efgh.
>
> Hm, this is curious, and definitely sounds like a Qt bug (possibly in
> the QtScript implementation?). As a workaround, did you try to build the
> array differently? E.g., creating an empty array and adding elements one
> by one (with v[0]=..., v[1]=..., etc.)? Maybe it has something to do
> with the handling of all elements at once in the constructor...
>
> HTH
> Stefan
>