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Re: display dialog


  • Subject: Re: display dialog
  • From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:02:23 -0400

On or about 6/19/03 1:42 PM, Robert Poland wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a simple way to get display dialog to display more than 255
> characters?
>
> TIA,

Nope. That's the limit.

A dialog with that many characters is probably not a good interface choice,
IMO. Edit, pare. Be specific.

Users can't do anything with dialog displayed text anyway (like select, etc)
so perhaps you should be writing out to a file with that many characters to
show.

Dialogs are for specific, short, instructional or feedback messages...not
tomes of text. (But of course, you already know that. :)

(If you _really_ need to do that, break the display text into two or more
parts.)
--
Gary

MacOS 9.1 / "9 is Fine"
OMM: osa:AS 183 / osa:JS 103 / FM 55 / BB 612 / Smile 188
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