button returned error

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#1

I have a problem with this script:

set enter_name to text returned of (display dialog “Enter name” default answer “” buttons {“Back”, “Add”} default button 2)
set button_returned to button returned of enter_name

Which I thought should work.

It compiles OK but when I run it I get the following error:

Can’t get button returned of “”.

And the event log reads (with the bit in bold picked out in purple):

display dialog "Enter name" default answer "" buttons {"Back", "Add"} default button 2
	{text returned:"", button returned:"Back"}
	"Can't get [b]button returned of \"\"[/b]."

Any ideas?

Thanks

Hawkeye

#2

Hi Hawkeye,

display dialog returns a record {button returned and text returned}.
You try to get button returned of text returned instead of the record result of display dialog.

This works:

set enter_name to (display dialog "Enter name" default answer "" buttons {"Back", "Add"} default button 2)
set button_returned to button returned of enter_name
#3

enter_name is the variable name associated with the text returned of the dialog, but it’s the dialog itself that has a button returned as well. If you want both the text and the button, then:

set D to (display dialog "Enter name" default answer "" buttons {"Back", "Add"} default button 2)
set Ans to text returned of D
set Btn to button returned of D

Or in more compressed form:

set {text returned:Ans, button returned:Btn} to (display dialog "Enter name" default answer "" buttons {"Back", "Add"} default button 2)
#4

D’oh. So simple really

Thanks for your help. Works fine now.