Re: Timeout for display dialog?
Re: Timeout for display dialog?
- Subject: Re: Timeout for display dialog?
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:41:21 -0700
On 9/17/01 12:18 PM, Matthew Broms <email@hidden> wrote:
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Does the display dialog command have a time-out parameter? If not, is there
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any simple work-around for displaying a message and then the script
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continuing on if no one is around to respond?
Yes.
display dialog: Display a dialog box, optionally requesting user input
display dialog string -- the text to display in dialog box
[default answer string] -- the default editable text
[buttons list] -- a list of up to three button names
[default button number or string] -- the name or number of the
default button
[with icon number or string] -- the name or ID of the icon to display
[with icon stop/note/caution] --
or one of these system icons
[giving up after integer] -- number of seconds to wait before
automatically dismissing dialog
Result: dialog reply -- a record containing the button clicked and
text entered (if any)
And the result can tell you whether it gave up or not:
Class dialog reply: Reply record for display dialog command
Properties:
button returned string [r/o] -- name of button chosen (empty if
giving up after9 was supplied and dialog timed out)
text returned string [r/o] -- text entered (present only if default
answer9 was supplied)
gave up boolean [r/o] -- did the dialog time out? (present only if
giving up after9 was supplied)
--Michelle
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