Re: Hat bug.
Re: Hat bug.
- Subject: Re: Hat bug.
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:17:24 -0800
It's the transformation from "Bob" to "Bill" I find most interesting...
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Paul Berkowitz
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From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:35:45 -0400
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To: AppleScript Users List <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Hat bug.
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You remember correctly. Any Eudora users out there who have the Super
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Sleek Settings plug-in installed can look at the sleek attributions
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to see this dynamic text entries in action.
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For example, the reply attribution is coded as below
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At ^3 ^1, ^0 wrote:
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which takes the dynamic text (parsed) from the appropriate field to
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produce the attribution below.
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At 12:58 PM -0500 19/03/04, Graff wrote:
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> If I remember correctly, historically dialogs under Mac OS used to
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> use the format "^0" to represent dynamic text content. In other
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> works, when you were building a dialog for a program you would set
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> any text that you wanted the program to be able to modify with a ^
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> and a number. Then when you were accessing the dialog through the
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> program you could run the command ParamText to modify up to four of
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> those constructions (^0, ^1, ^2, ^3).
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> For example, you would build this into text in a dialog box:
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> "I want ^0 to go to the store"
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> You would then call:
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> ParamText("Bob, "", "", "");
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> Which would cause the text in the dialog to display as:
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> "I want Bill to go to the store"
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> So it looks like you are running into this problem due to an old
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> feature. I believe that this method is still used for Carbon and
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> for all I know it may be used behind the scenes in Cocoa also.
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> You can read more about it here:
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> <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/Toolbox/Toolbox-417.html>
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> -Ken
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> On Mar 19, 2004, at 4:10 AM, Emmanuel wrote:
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>> display dialog "^0^1^2^3"
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>> Emmanuel
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>> wondering if display dialog supports a hidden "paramtext" parameter?
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