Dialog Maker app

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#1

Dialog Maker has every feature of the display dialog command plus a copy feature, an image representation of your chosen icon, combo boxes for button labels with drop down menus of many commonly used labels, clever timeout steppers, and automatic if/set statements.

http://files.me.com/imadrichard/17v1ux

If it asks for a password put in literally anything, it’s Mobile Me’s fault.

Please tell us what you think, more features? changes?

#2

Hi Richard,

one suggestion: add a system version check with an error message, if the system version is < 10.6.
After that the app should quit silently.

Of course in Leopard the app crashes :wink:

Something like


if ((system attribute "sysv") mod 4096 div 16) < 6 then
	display dialog "Dialog Maker requires OS 10.6 Snow Leopard or later" buttons {"QUIT"} default button 1 with icon 0
	quit
end if
#3

Thanks, done, any suggestions for the app itself?

#4

Unfortunately no, I don’t have Snow Leopard.

#5

Why, you on PPC? Otherwise your insane.

#6

Yes, I’m still on PPC. But I’m able to “speak” Objective-C, so there’s no need for this “neither fish nor fowl” AppleScriptObjC :wink:

PS: The Intel Mac is on my personal road-map

#7

Anyone else?

#8

The choose from list or the dialog doesn’t work properly.
It doesn’t seem to be able to insert the dialog into my applescript editor Version: 2.3 AppleScript version 2.1.2.
Mac OsX 10.6.2 Norwegian Locale.:slight_smile:

#9

I thought it was cool. The only couple suggestions I have for you are:

I had to hide the dock to see the full application, just a slight inconvenience.

It would be more convenient if you could add the icon by just dropping it onto the image well instead of having to select it.

#10

Hi Richard,
very nice…

One suggestion so far,

for the if statements, it maybe better to have the option of if , else if, the buttons…

I look forward to the full suit that will replace all the apple supplied Applescript menus. :smiley:

In fact I may add a Applescript menu item to call this app while in Script Editor.
Cheers

*edit, Just added a script to he ‘Dialog’ script folder for the contextual menus.

But Also added the app it self just to see if it would work.
It showed up, but as a folder. I released on the first menu item ‘Dialog Maker’, ( actaully the app) any way, suspecting in trying to open it as a folder all it would do was send an open call. It did and the app launched.