Re: display dialog
Re: display dialog
- Subject: Re: display dialog
- From: Kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 03:37:09 +0100
on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:44:31 -0700, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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On 6/19/03 10:42 AM, "Robert Poland" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Is there a simple way to get display dialog to display more than 255
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> characters?
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There's neither a simple way nor a complicated way. There is no way.
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'display dialog' can only display 255 characters. I find it gets me to make
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things shorter and clearer. ;-)
I agree that it's a healthy discipline and that shorter dialogs are
generally preferable. (Some users seem to pay them scant attention anyway -
or is my cynicism showing just a little?)
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You can get the 3rd-party '24U Appearance OSAX' whose 'display better
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dialog' lets you display a whole book's worth if you want to.
If you can't avoid a long message, and prefer to use a vanilla method, I
suppose you could always display it (as Gary hinted) in < 255-character
chunks - something like this:
--===================
to displayLong(msg)
set {x, e, a, c, p, n, d} to {1, count msg, "", "Cancel", "< Prev",
"Next >", "Done"}
set b to {c, n}
repeat until a is d
set a to (display dialog msg's item x buttons b default button (count
b))'s button returned
if a is p then
if x is e then set b's last item to n
set x to x - 1
if x is 1 then set b to {c, n}
else
if x is 1 then set b to {c, p, n}
set x to x + 1
if x is e then set b's last item to d
end if
end repeat
end displayLong
set msg to {"Start of some very long message.", "Middle of some very
long message.", "End of some very long message."}
displayLong(msg)
--===================
-------------------------------------------------------
(Any wrapped lines abutting the left edge of the window
should be reconnected to the end of the previous line)
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--
Kai
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