Can "Cancel" button name be changed in "display dialog" box?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hi,

Instead of OK and Cancel, I want to use Yes and No. To label the buttons, I know I can do something like the following:

set entBox to display dialog “Are you printing to the HP8000?” buttons {“Yes”, “No”} default button “Yes”

However, I don’t know what to do to make the “No” button the equivalent of a “Cancel” button. I’ve tried things like the following:

set ansBox to button returned of entBox
if ansBox = “No” then stop (or quit or whatever else I thought of last week)

Unfortunately, assuming I don’t get a syntax error, the script runs as if the user had clicked on the “Yes” button no matter what button was actually chosen.

Any ideas?

AppleScript: 1.9.3
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.3.9)

#2

Hi, Rhayader.

set entBox to display dialog "Are you printing to the HP8000?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button "Yes"
if button returned of entBox is "No" then error number -128

Error number -128 is the “User canceled.” error that’s normally generated by the “Cancel” button (or its equivalent in other languages).

#3

I’m not sure when this was added.

set entBox to display dialog "Are you printing to the HP8000?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button "Yes" cancel button "No"

Edit: This was added in AppleScript 1.10 (Mac OS X v10.4).