Hi Peter, I couldn't replicate this bug on my machine, neither with dir8.5.1 nor with dir mx, and neither with win xp nor with win 98.
some thoughts: - maybe something is screwed with the font that is used? you could check if you get the same result when you change the system's default font for dialogs (Tahoma 8pt on my computer) in the System settings. - what about the property inspector (which uses another font)? do you have the full "how many" there? - you could try if changing [#comment: ... to ["comment": ... makes a difference (you never know...) Valentin Peter Bochan wrote: > 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!] [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!]
