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From: moore@cs.washington.edu (Charles Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: the Ask command
Keywords: Ask
Message-ID: <12162@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 90 00:16:37 GMT
References: <12142@june.cs.washington.edu> <1010@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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In article <1010@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, jgsmith@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (James G. Smith) writes:
> 
> I also noticed that problem with the Ask command (clicking "Okay" with a
> blank line looks just like clicking "Cancel").  My answer to this was to:
> 
> ask "Whatever" with " " --I forget whether there is a variable called space
> 
> The major problem with this approach is aesthetic.  The whole blank line is 
> selected.  Otherwise, it seems to work.  (i.e. if the user just clicks okay,
> then it contains a space instead of being empty).

That's a good idea but it doesn't work as well when the default answer should
be something other than empty.  In that case (also my case), the user has to
hit the delete key and then type a space in order to achieve the empty 
response.  Unfortunately, that's pretty unintuitive.

Charles