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Re: Is this a known bug?
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Re: Is this a known bug?


  • Subject: Re: Is this a known bug?
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 18:09:00 -0800

On Nov 9, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:

On Nov 9, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:

It's not a bug, precisely -- it's a very old Dialog Manager feature to do text substitution. If it sees "^0" (or 1, 2, or 3) in a piece of dialog text, it will substitute the string set by another Dialog Manager call. (ParamText, if you care. No, it's not accessible from AppleScript.) The only suggestion I can give you at the moment is "don't do that."

That's what I thought it was; that goes all the way back to the first release of the Mac OS, with the 128K Mac, right?

Yep.

Is paramtext actually used any more?

Well, it's still supported, and I'm sure some people are using it. It's not really advised, though, since it can't handle Unicode.




--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering

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