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

[Mark A. S. <ma...@sp...>]

Well, the problem with sending the newline isn't one for CocoaDialog.  
CocoaDialog takes exactly what you give it, newlines included, and 
displays it. Finding an elegant way to send a newline to a program in 
command-line arguments is a problem with the shell.

In Perl, for example, you can do `cocoadialog yesno-msgbox 
--informative-text "one\ntwo"` without a problem.

Regarding the last line being cut off... do you mean the one that says 
"Filefly Process ID : " ?  If so, I just tested it, copying and pasting 
that command exactly as you typed it, and it worked just fine.  So I 
don't know what the problem might be.  Are you using the newest version 
of cocoadialog (i added auto-resizing to dialogs in one of the later 
releases)?

- mark

Thomas Patko wrote:
> 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... 
> <mailto: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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