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From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Alerts
Message-ID: <1786@pur-phy>
Date: 14 Jan 89 16:51:25 GMT
References: <598@cf-cm.UUCP>
Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <598@cf-cm.UUCP> ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
>I don't know if this can be done, but here goes...
>  [wants to use ^0 in dialog without substitution...]
>Or do I *have* to say something like ParamText("^0","^1","^2","^3"); ?

I have no idea how to do this, except for the fainly absurd, (like making
a PICT item that has a picture of your StatText) but I'm pretty sure that
even the above won't work.  ParamText("^0", "^1","^2","^3") will set up
an infinite loop, since that's the way ParamText works.

-Sho