Re: [Cocoadialog-users] Newline in --informative-text?

[Thomas P. <tp...@gm...>]

Hello Mark:

Yes.  That works.  It is a bit brute force, but it works.  A discrete call
for a newline without --informative text would be nice for the next
release.  The informative text does wrap VERY nicely and does support large
amounts of text (just what i needed here).  I am writing a simple job
termination little app with Platpus/CocoaDialog and echoing out the
parameters of the job (pulled from separate calls) that the user is going to
be terminating (to ensure that they are killing the RIGHT job).

It seems to work OK using the syntax below, but the final line is not
printed out in the dialog box.  Any ideas why?

CD="CocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/CocoaDialog"
rv=`"$1"/Contents/Resources/$CD yesno-msgbox --no-cancel --float
--string-output --no-newline \
--title "Firefly for Mac Job Termination Prompt" \
--text  "Do you want to cancel this Firefly Job? Job $COUNT of $NO_ITEMS" \
--informative-text "Job Type Summary : $JOBTYPE
Run Time (Minutes:Seconds) : $TIME
Input File : $INPUTFILE
Number of CPU Cores : $NCPU
Firefly Process ID : $MAINFIREFLYPID"`

Cheers,

Thomas

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Mark A. Stratman <ma...@sp...>wrote:

> I'm sure there's a cleaner way to do it, but you can just hard-code a
> newline in there:
> CocoaDialog yesno-msgbox --text "Hi" --informative-text "hello,
> world"
>
> That will work just fine, but I admit it's not the most elegant way.  But
> anyway, it definitely supports multiple lines, both forced, and wrapped if
> you have a really long informative-text.  This was a feature/fix I added to
> the 2.1.0 release.
>
> The informative-text label in the nib file will allow for an extremely
> large amount of text.  It wraps lines automatically, and will extend itself
> vertically to allow for as much as text as you need (within reason).
>
> - mark
>
> Thomas Patko wrote:
>
>> Hello CocaDialog Users:
>>
>> Is it possible to print out multiple lines in the --informative-text
>> portion of a CocoaDialog call?  In my particular case it is for a
>> yesno-msgbox type call.
>>
>> I would like to be able to do something like:
>>
>> --informative-text "Process ID: $MAINFIREFLYPID \n Run Time: $TIME"`
>>
>> But obviously this will not work.  Is there a syntax that support newline
>> calls from within the --informative-text option and if so what is the
>> syntax?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Thomas
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