From: 12 34 <rubyforum@...>
Date: 2007-06-21T03:32:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Default text entered in a puts dialog

Jano Svitok wrote:
> On 6/20/07, 12 34 <rubyforum@web.knobby.ws> wrote:
>> For ASers this is equivalent to
>>
>> set photoGMT to -4
>> display dialog "What time zone are the photos in?" default answer
>> photoGMT
> 
> This is the best I can imagine: you cannot fill the input buffer
> easily, so I propose to use the  default value if the reply is empty.
> 
> photoGMT = -4
> puts "What time zone are the photos in? [#{photoGMT}]"
> ans = gets.strip
> answer = ans.empty? ? photoGMT : ans.to_i
> 
> 
> Jano

TextMate errors on strip. I change to chomp and TextMate errors on empty 
field. Works OK if the field is filled in.

Thanks for trying.

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