Re: Is this a known bug?
Re: Is this a known bug?
- Subject: Re: Is this a known bug?
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:17:58 -0800
On Nov 10, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Nigel Garvey wrote:
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.
I'm not disputing that it should be fixed, I'm disputing that it
should be called a "bug" -- see <http://catb.org/jargon/html/F/feature.html
>. This is, for the most part, quibbling over terminology, but I
wanted to be clear that the behavior was in there for a reason, even
if it didn't apply to AppleScript.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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