Making Dialogs in Frontier

[Sam DeVore]

On 7/30/02 7:38 AM, "Philippe Martin" <flip.m at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> At 21:39 +0200 29/07/02, Helmut Jäcklein wrote:
>> Hello list!
>> 
>> I am still looking for a good method to make Dialogs in Frontier.
>> "DialogDirector" made by Christopher E. Hyde
>> <http://www.hylight.demon.co.uk/DialogDirector/>
>> would be great. But when i try it out after loading its osax, i earn
>> "MacOS Error 6500" only.
>> 
>> Has somebody experiences about this kind of osax?
> 
> The "New Finder Glue" (as we called it back in 98) used DialogDirector and had
> a suite to access the OSAX. At this time, the problem we had to solve was
> caused by a bug in DialogDirector: it expected the attributes to be in a
> certain order in the AppleEvents it received (while it should have accepted
> them in any order, as they're named attributes). So there was a script in that
> suite that built the AppleEvents according to DiDi's expectations, instead of
> letting Frontier build them.
> 
> I don't know if DialogDirector can be used on Mac OS X, but if you're still on
> OS 9, you should definitely try to get the "New Finder Glue". The "DiDi" suite
> was quite cool, and it should still be usable, at least as a starting point.
> 
> Unfortunately, ScriptMeridian is temporarily down, so you won't be able to get
> it from there before a couple of days. But I can send you what I think was the
> last version of the "New Finder Glue". Write me privately if you want it.
> 
> Philippe
> --
> 
> ____________________________________________________________________
> Philippe MARTIN
> mailto:philippemartin at wanadoo.fr
Of course I guess you could create a set of wrapper scripts since you can
have appleScripts in the DB that could create the dialogs for you as well.

Sam D
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