Hi all, Well, I guess the time has come when Director can really be considered a wise application. Buggy times are left far away in the dismal past and bright future prospects are seen in the two handwritten letters confined in a round circle saying "di". So, what am I driving at: I'm not quite sure whether it's the "di" or "win03" but gpdl method definitely didn't go to primary school in the year of two thousand and four. I have previously posted a similar issue connected with the phrase "sound channel" and now I have been playing with different combinations of words and arrived at the following outcome:
In the blank movie make the behavior with the only lines in it: property p on getPropertyDescriptionList(me) description = [:] description.addProp(#p, [#comment:"how many", #format:#integer, #default:1]) return(description) end drag it to anything you like and you'd obviously get a parameters window saying "how many, dude". But that's not how it turned out on my win03 machine. It says only "how". If I try to put down "how much" in the #comment section, I still get "how". If I write "how huge", "how tremendous", "how man" "how mac" (tough "how win" works... see below why), "how mus", "how numerous", "how nominate" don't work. If I write "how few" it works! If I write "how little" it works as well! So to draw the paradigm I have tested it for quite a bit and came to the following conclusion: In the #comment section of gpdl, to observe the mentioned malfunctioning you type the following combination of letters "anyLetter and w (that is a,b,c,d,f,g,h,... + 'w')" and the succeeding word should start in letter "m". The "m"-word can be as long as you want provided it's not shorter than 4 chars and it doesn't contain chars "e", "i", otherwise it'll break the idyll. E.g. ow mkkk, bw macr, zw mrocks, hw mhavok. There are exceptions though, if you type "hw mbed" or "mw mbid" it won't work because "e"/"i" is succeeded by "d". These samples show mentioned results on my machine, and I tried them on v. 8.5.1. on win98 and it still showed the same negative ones. What is characteristic though that if you type the "m"-word really long it'll stretch the parameters window accordingly but without being visible in there. You might think: so what? It's not a bug after all, just a minor authoring quirk, but, tomorrow I have sort of judgment day: I'll defend my M.A. thesis, so I made up my mind to post something to my favorite lingo-l and to try to connect lingo topic with English language topic, that's why it's somewhat about discourse. Best regards, Peter Bochan Master of Arts (tomorrow...hopefully...fingers crossed) College of Foreign Languages Chernivtsi National University Ukraine [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
