Re: Display Dialog bug in Xcode?
Re: Display Dialog bug in Xcode?
- Subject: Re: Display Dialog bug in Xcode?
- From: "David A. Cox" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:47:10 -0800 (PST)
Thanks for the info. This will get me past the current problem while I
wait for the update you mentioned. The only problem I have with the
"display alert" option is that I can't give it the "giving up after X"
line so that the dialog goes away after a set time.
DAC
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Tim Bumgarner wrote:
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Hi David,
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This is a known problem (in AppleScript Studio) and will be addressed
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in a future release. It will eventually work just like the Standard
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Addition's version of display dialog. If you are merely presenting an
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alert, you should try 'display alert' as that uses the standard Mac OS
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X alert and allows you to have many lines of text in the message.
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Thanks,
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Tim Bumgarner
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AppleScript Engineering
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On Dec 29, 2003, at 12:52 PM, David A. Cox wrote:
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> I'm wondering if I am running into a bug in Xcode, or if I just don't
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> know
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> how to set something to control dialog size.
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> I am having a problem where all the dialogs I create in Xcode
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> (applescript
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> studio) using the "display dialog" command show only 4.9 lines of text
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> (ie
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> the bottom of the 4th line, and all following lines are not show).
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> For example, the script:
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> display dialog "1 Line one
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> 2 Line two
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> 3 Line three
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> 4 Line four
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> 5 Line five" buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
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> works great in script editor, but the same code attached to a button in
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> Xcode will not show line five at all, and line 4 will have the bottoms
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> cut
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> off of all the letters.
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> I know that Xcode has its own version of "display dialog" so that you
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> can
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> make dialogs into sheets and such, but does anyone know how to control
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> the
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> number of lines presented in the dialog?
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> I worked on this for a while, and searched the net, and I could not
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> find
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> any info on the problem....
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> DAC
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