Re: [MacPerl] Gathering user input

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 23.07 1998.02.10, George Michel wrote:
>I sometimes have scripts where I need several responses from the
>user. Is it possible to do this by opening a single window or must
>I open and close a window for each prompt?
>
>E.g., currently I do something like this:
>
>$x = MacPerl::Ask("What is your quest?");
>$y = MacPerl::Ask("What is your favorite color?");
>
>but would like to do something like
>
>($x,$y)= MacPerl::Ask("What is your quest?",,"What is your favorite
>color?");

You can't do it with MacPerl::Ask(), but you can design your own dialog box
resources and use Mac::Dialogs et al.  I hope to have some examples of this
inthe next month, though some people have already done some of this
already.

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