Re: Display dialog Return - Bug or Feature?
Re: Display dialog Return - Bug or Feature?
- Subject: Re: Display dialog Return - Bug or Feature?
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:48:16 -0300
At 7:47 PM +0100 12/08/02, John Delacour wrote:
At 10:03 am -0300 12/8/02, Bill Briggs wrote:
What Paul said in his post is that you *can* enter returns in the
field in X, even if there are no returns in the default text.
Well taking your script as the test ...
display dialog "write something" default answer ,
"text here" buttons {"yes", "no", "maybe"}
... on my machine running 10.1.5, I am quite unable to type a
carriage return in the text field with or without a default button.
Well, someone else has reported this now, so it seems we've got what
we all love in AppleScript, inconsistent behaviour. That's even
better than a bug. Makes the Display Dialog a crap shoot.
I tried it before and I've just tried it again, and I've tried every
possible way. Ptrssing carriage return does not even delete
highlighted text.
Well, it works differently for Paul, Michelle and me, so we've got
something odd going on. The fact that return won't delete highlighted
text on your Mac is very odd indeed.
And on the X machine in front of me, I see exactly the behaviour
he describes, which is different from the way it works in 9. What
version of X are you running? I'm running 10.1.5 and it works as
Paul described it. Are you running Jaguar? If so, that may explain
it.
It seems to me more likely that some other feature of your set-up is
different from mine and leading to this.
Impossible to guess at that. My X Mac isn't my "living workspace"
yet, so it's only got a dozen or so applications on it, and what
might be doing this is hard to say.
With so much that is flaky in 10.1.5, it's hard to know quite what.
And I'm not inclined to look right now. But I agree with you about
the flakiness of X right now.
I do like the new system and I think it's go a tremendous future
but I do wish they'd actually developed it past the alpha stage
before taking my money!
I experience all manner of flaky behaviour on mine. Nothing that's a
show stopper (desktop picture disappears after sleep, network
settings spontaneously change, some network interfaces become
unavailable even though they are all built in, desktop icons just
relocate themselves when the wind changes, clock changed
spontaneously to a 24 hour clock, etc.), and it's never outright
crashed the OS, but too much stupid stuff happening to make it a full
time living quarters. I get none of that kind of crap in 9.1 on the
WallStreet, and only reboot it every two or three weeks, nearly
always because of Netscape. Maybe Jaguar will be the real shipping OS
we all expected. We agree that the future of X looks good, but
there's a lot of annoying stuff going on right now, quite apart from
the scripting issues.
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