Re: Choose from list change in AS 1.5.5
Re: Choose from list change in AS 1.5.5
- Subject: Re: Choose from list change in AS 1.5.5
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:49:06 -0800
On 2/15/01 9:19 AM, Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote:
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This is nuts. Here's how it appears to work:
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If you put a carriage return into the prompt, then the prompt is truncated
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if the second line has 34 characters or more, unless you have a list item
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with 30 or more characters, and then it isn't truncated. If the maximum list
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item length is 29 characters or less, then the second line of the prompt, if
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over 33 characters, loses its final word(s) . But if the first line is
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lengthened to 27 characters (or 28 if you include the CR character), then
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the second line is completely removed (still with maximum list item length
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of 29). As soon as a list item is extended to 30 characters. nothing is
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truncated.
Actually, it appears to be much worse than that. Try this script:
set addressTypeList to {"Default", "Work", "Home", "Ask"}
choose from list addressTypeList with prompt "one
two
three"
--Michelle
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