Dave Cragg wrote:
>
> At 1:42 PM +0200 5/17/00, Pierre Sahores wrote:
> >Hi the list,
> >
> >First : If i run the script below :
> >
> >on mrl1
> > set the directory to "/"
> > put the directories into dirsG
> > answer dirsG & cr & cr & the number of lines of dirsG
> >end mrl1
> >
> >i get a clean list of the directories and files stored in dirsG but
> >nothing about the second part of the last line script request "& cr & cr
> >& the number of lines of dirsG".
> >
> >I'm probably mistaking but where ?
>
> Is there a vertical height limit on the field in the answer dialog
> used to display messages? Perhaps some of the lines are getting cut
> off. Try this and see what appears in the message box:
>
> on mrl1
> set the directory to "/"
> put the directories into dirsG
> put dirsG & cr & cr & the number of lines of dirsG
> end mrl1
Dave,
You are right. I got the expected result but the answer dialog
box (only needed to test my script) didn't present it in its integrality
(the same kind of 255 chars, dialog box height, or so, limit that we had
in Hypercard) ;-)
I know yet how to avoid the problem.
Thank's a lot,
Regards, Pierre
> Cheers
> Dave Cragg
>
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