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From: tom@wcc.oz (Tom Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: the Ask command
Keywords: Ask
Message-ID: <898@wcc.oz>
Date: 7 Jun 90 02:30:56 GMT
References: <12142@june.cs.washington.edu>
Organization: Webster Computer, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <12142@june.cs.washington.edu>, moore@cs.washington.edu (Charles Moore) writes:
> It appears to me that with the Ask command there is no way to
> distinguish between the user clicking "Cancel" and clicking "OK" with
> an empty edit window.

I always pop up an "answer "Blank Ehtry of Cancel?" with "Cancel" or
"Blank" ". Crude but effective. You can always "roll your own" dialog
box (Field, buttons which are normally hidden but are made visible by
the script) but it is a pest.

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