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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: "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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