Re: [Pyobjc-dev] NSRunAlertPanel signature?

[b.bum <bb...@ma...>]

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 12:16 , Zachery Bir wrote:
> In the AppKit docs, it spells the method NSRunAlertPanel like this:
>
> int NSRunAlertPanel(NSString *title, NSString *msg, NSString 
> *defaultButton, NSString *alternateButton, NSString *otherButton, ...)
>
> I assumed that the ellipsis in argument list meant the additional 
> buttons were unbounded. However, PyObjC complains when more than 5 
> parameters are passed. UI issues aside, is one or the other (signature 
> or implementation) incorrect?

The additional arguments are just the formatting arguments to be 
combined with msg in a fashion similar to...

[NSString stringWithFormat: msg, ...]

So, just use Python's string composition functionality instead and pass 
a fixed set of five args.

b.bum