Dialog ToolkitPlus questions

AppleScript Dialog Toolkit
#1

I’m having an issue with the display enhanced alert command in Dialog ToolkitPlus.

When I run the script below I get an error message:

-- --{«class ocid» id «data optr000000008007E42101000000», 30, 113.0} doesn’t understand the “suppressionButton” message.

Also, the partial result doesn’t seem to match what the actual result should be.
-- --{<NSButton: 0x121e708a0>, 30, 113.0}

Further, if pass an empty accViewControls to the command, I get a similar error, but four items in the partial result.

--{{«class ocid» id «data optr00000000F057ED2101000000», «class ocid» id «data optr00000000A07F0E4201000000», «class ocid» id «data optr0000000000D7214201000000»}, 243} doesn’t understand the “suppressionButton” message.

The errors seems to have something to do with the suppression button, but I get the same error if suppression is true/false or omitted.

If I use the Display Enhanced Window command instead, it works like a charm.

(This is in addition to the clipping error I reported yesterday and am still having issues with, which seems to be resolved).

use script "Dialog Toolkit Plus"
use scripting additions

set accViewControls to {}
set controlResults to {}
set accViewWidth to 400
set accViewHeight to 200
set theBottom to 0
set spacer to 12
set theBottom to spacer

--Variables


set alertText to "text"
set initialPosition to {30, 30}

--Build alert buttons
set buttonList to {("Cancel"), ("Copy"), ("Okay")}

set {theButtons, theWidth} to create buttons buttonList ¬
   default button 3 ¬
   cancel button 1 ¬
   equal widths false ¬
   --button keys {textList}

if theWidth > accViewWidth then set accViewWidth to theWidth

-->ACC views go here
-->>CheckBox
set checkBoxTitle to "Checkbox text"

set {theCheckBoxValue, theTop, theWidth} to ¬
   create checkbox checkBoxTitle ¬
      left inset 0 ¬
      bottom theBottom ¬
      max width accViewWidth ¬
      without initial state

set theBottom to (theTop + spacer)
set the end of accViewControls to theCheckBoxValue
--<<CheckBox



--<<

--Display enhanced alert
set {userResponse, suppression, controlValues} to ¬
   display enhanced alert alertText ¬
      message alertText ¬
      as informational alert ¬
      buttons theButtons ¬
      suppression false ¬
      acc view width accViewWidth ¬
      acc view height accViewWidth ¬
      acc view controls accViewControls ¬
      giving up after 60
-- error message
--   --{«class ocid» id «data optr000000008007E42101000000», 30, 113.0} doesn’t understand the “suppressionButton” message.

-- error values
-- --{<NSButton: 0x121e708a0>, 30, 113.0}

→ Mac OS Version 11.6.8 (20G730)
→ Script Debugger 8.0.5 (8A61)
→ Dialog Toolkit Plus 1.1.2

#2

For alerts, you don’t create buttons – you just pass names for them. So remove the create buttons call, and change:

to:

		buttons buttonList ¬
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#3

I think this may have come up before, but is it possible to put a combobox (popup menu where the user can edit entries) into an accessory view that will work in MyriadTables?

#4

It should be. A combobox is actually a specialised kind of text field, which is worth keeping in mind when setting it up.

#5

I know one of the dialog toolkit samples brings up a user dialog if a user makes a selection.

Correction: It’s the Myriad Tables sample:
“Accessory view more complex sample”

Where you click a checkbox and you get an alert telling you the box was clicked.

Would it be possible to have the user make a selection (or click a checkbox) in a dialog toolkit window, and have a dialog toolkit alert show which the user can respond to and then return to the window? (Maybe even updating a value or label?)

(Same qustion with Myraid tables accessory views)

#6

You should be able to do that with a checkbox – but it’s not a trivial thing to do. You’d basically need to make a custom version of the lib, and then set a target and action for checkbox, similar to how it works in that example.

No, that’s not possible the way it’s designed.