Re: Definitely a bug
Re: Definitely a bug
- Subject: Re: Definitely a bug
- From: Steven Angier <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 18:54:24 +1100
- Organization: Macscript.com
Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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I've been noticing that 'display dialog' is truncating its messages very
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frequently in OS 10.1.x (AS 1.8.x and I think also 1.7, but I'm not sure),
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when the message is much less than 255 characters long. It only happens when
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there are 'returns' (carriage returns) within the message. But carriage
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returns (usually '& return & return &' ) occur in about 95% of my display
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dialogs, and this bug seems to be happening about 33% of those. That's an
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awful lot of dialogs to check.
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This particular bug has always been around in choose from list's 'prompt'..
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But I'd never seen it in 'display dialog' until the most recent version(s)
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of AS. How did it creep in, and - can it be removed?
I sent the following message to C. Nebel in November, which I think describes the same
problem.
I haven't heard anything back from him on it.
Steven Angier
Macsccript.com
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Hi Chris,
There is a bug in the "display dialog" command under Mac OS 10.1 / AS
1.7 in which the depth of the text area of the dialog is miscalculated.
This causes the last line of some dialog messages to disappear.
Example:
display dialog "The Macscript.com Library has two functions for removing
items from lists." & return & return & ,
"They are ExcludeFromList() and RemoveFromList()." with icon 1
On my machine, the word "lists." at the end of the first paragraph
wraps, although I think that the dialog box depth is calculated as the
word not wrapping.
This happens surprisingly often, affecting as many as 10% of the dialog
messages I have seen.
Steven Angier
Macscript.com
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