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From: jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Alerts
Message-ID: <18710@santra.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 89 20:32:15 GMT
References: <598@cf-cm.UUCP>
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Reply-To: jmunkki@kampi.UUCP (Juri Munkki)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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In article <598@cf-cm.UUCP> ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
>... Believe it or not, I actually want the strings "^0"
>and so on to appear in my alert, and not to be substituted.
...
>... do I *have* to say something like ParamText("^0","^1","^2","^3"); ?

You can't do it that way. That will generate an infine recursion, since text
^0 contains text ^0 etc. This was done one purpose so that you could have
a paramtext that contains another parameter.

You can put a null (ASCII 0) between the two offending characters so that they
will not be recognized. I don't know if you can create the nul with Rez, but
you can do it with ResEdit by first writing some other character instead of
the null and then editing the DITL with the hex/ascii editor.

You might also try creating a PICT with the strings in it.

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