Re: Definitely a bug
Re: Definitely a bug
- Subject: Re: Definitely a bug
- From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 11:00:34 -0500
Paul Berkowitz wrote:
I've been noticing that 'display dialog' is truncating its messages very
frequently in OS 10.1.x (AS 1.8.x and I think also 1.7, but I'm not
sure),
when the message is much less than 255 characters long. It only happens
when
there are 'returns' (carriage returns) within the message. But carriage
returns (usually '& return & return &' ) occur in about 95% of my
display
dialogs, and this bug seems to be happening about 33% of those. That's
an
awful lot of dialogs to check.
This particular bug has always been around in choose from list's
'prompt'..
But I'd never seen it in 'display dialog' until the most recent
version(s)
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
It is kind of weird!
the following does not work:
display dialog " Line 1 Line 1 Line 1 Line 1 Line 1 Line 1 Line 1
Line 1 Line 1 Line 1
Line 2 Line 2 Line 2 Line 2 Line 2 Line 2 Line 2 Line 2 Line 2 Line 2
Line 3 Line 3 Line 3 Line 3 Line 3 Line 3 Line 3 Line 3 Line 3 Line 3
Line 4 Line 4 Line 4 Line 4 Line 4 Line 4 Line 4 Line 4 Line 4 Line 4
Line 5 Line 5 Line 5 Line 5 Line 5 Line 5 Line 5 Line 5 Line 5 Line 5
Line 6 Line 6 Line 6 Line 6 Line 6 Line 6 Line 6 Line 6 Line 6 Line 6
Line 7 Line 7 Line 7 Line 7 Line 7 Line 7 Line 7 Line 7 Line 7 Line 7
Line 8 Line 8 Line 8 Line 8 Line 8 Line 8 Line 8 Line 8 Line 8 Line 8
Line 9 Line 9 Line 9 Line 9 Line 9 Line 9 Line 9 Line 9 Line 9 Line 9
Line 10 Line 10 Line 10 Line 10 Line 10 Line 10 Line 10 Line
10 Line 10 Line 10
Line 11 Line 11 Line 11 Line 11 Line 11 Line 11 Line 11 Line
11 Line 11 Line 11
Line 12 Line 12 Line 12 Line 12 Line 12 Line 12 Line 12 Line
12 Line 12 Line 12
Line 13 Line 13 Line 13 Line 13 Line 13 Line 13 Line 13 Line
13 Line 13 Line 13
Line 14 Line 14 Line 14 Line 14 Line 14 Line 14 Line 14 Line
14 Line 14 Line 14
Line 15 Line 15 Line 15 Line 15 Line 15 Line 15 Line 15 Line
15 Line 15 Line 15
Line 16 Line 16 Line 16 Line 16 Line 16 Line 16 Line 16 Line
16 Line 16 Line 16
Line 17 Line 17 Line 17 Line 17 Line 17 Line 17 Line 17 Line
17 Line 17 Line 17
Line 18 Line 18 Line 18 Line 18 Line 18 Line 18 Line 18 Line
18 Line 18 Line 18
Line 19 Line 19 Line 19 Line 19 Line 19 Line 19 Line 19 Line
19 Line 19 Line 19" giving up after 2
However the following works fine:
display dialog " Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Line 6
Line 7
Line 8
Line 9
Line 10
Line 11
Line 12
Line 13
Line 14
Line 15
Line 16
Line 17
Line 18
Line 19" giving up after 2
Another think that I did not know, the display dialog gets whatever text
you put in quotation literally, accepting even new lines without a
return command. I've seen that for scripts ( e.g., run script "I did not
know
it worked")., but not for ddialog. Actually it kept the format pretty
well too. I guess we get some bonuses at expense of something else.
Since today is Christmas, let us look at the bright side, we got some
bonuses...
Regards
Deivy Petrescu
http://www.dicas.com