Re: Is this a known bug?
Re: Is this a known bug?
- Subject: Re: Is this a known bug?
- From: "Nigel Garvey" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:04:05 +0000
Christopher Nebel wrote on Thu, 9 Nov 2006 17:04:54 -0800:
>On Nov 9, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Adam Bell wrote:
>> display dialog "^0" , "^1", "^2" and "^3" come up blank when they
>> are side by side. Using ASCII number doesn't help. 'as unicode text'
>> doesn't help. (Pointed out by bmose on bbs.applescript.net).
>
>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.)
That makes it a bug in 'display dialog', doesn't it? That's where the
responsibility lies for ensuring that text that's legitimate in
AppleScript is passed on to the system in a form that will get the
required result.
NG
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