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From: tom@wcc.oz (Tom Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Problems with NewFileName XFCN
Message-ID: <627@wcc.oz>
Date: 20 Feb 90 07:57:10 GMT
References: <9122@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Webster Computer, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <9122@portia.Stanford.EDU>, naomi@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Naomi Takeuchi) writes:
> I have a message handler that uses the NewFileName XFCN.  
> 
> The problem is that the first time this handler runs the newname global 
> variable gets garbage, mostly squares, underscores, and paragraph symbols,
> when the user clicks "Cancel" from the NewFileName dialog box.

Me too. Note there are probably lots of different NewFileName XFCN's
around, (that's what you get when the language doesn't have the
feature :-) so most of them probably don't do it.

The one I've got is by Andrew Gilmartin of Brown University.

Any ideas (fixes or alternate NewFileName's) anyone?
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