From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-06-21T07:37:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Default text entered in a puts dialog

On Jun 20, 2007, at 2:32 PM, 12 34 wrote:

> 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.

I ran the above code in TextMate with Run (cmd-R) and it worked fine.  
It only failed when I tried to execute it with Execute and Update �#  
=>� Markers (ctl-shift-cmd-E). Did you execute with Run or with  
Execute ...?

Regards, Morton