Version 0.7, February 1998 Copyright © 1996-1998 Christopher E. Hyde. All rights reserved. drjekyll@hylight.demon.co.uk http://www.hylight.demon.co.uk/ Licence Please note that this software is provided “as is” and without any express or implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Dialog Director is FREE. You may redistribute Dialog Director to anyone as long as you include the complete, unaltered, Dialog Director package and do not charge for it. The “complete package” is defined as meaning the entire and exact contents of the file <http://www.hylight.demon.co.uk/DialogDirector/DialogDirector0.7.sit.hqx>. It includes all scripting additions, all documentation and all examples & utilities, in either compressed or fully uncompressed form. You may, of course, charge for your own software that uses Dialog Director (if you so desire), just not extra for Dialog Director. It also means that you may not sell copies or redistribute parts of the Dialog Director package without obtaining a separate and specific licence from the author. Although not a formal part of the licence I strongly suggest that if you use any URLs to Dialog Director at my website then you should use <http://www.hylight.demon.co.uk/DialogDirector/>. Also I would sincerely appreciate being sent a complementary copy of any compilation CD that includes Dialog Director. What is Dialog Director? Dialog Director is a scripting addition that extends AppleScript and other OSA compatible languages on any computer running Mac OS 7 or later. It provides a rich set of features that allow you to create advanced and dynamic dialog boxes and floating windows directly from within your AppleScript scripts. This gives you the ability to extend & customise an application’s user interface and to write applets, droplets & embedded scripts with the power to interact with your users in a fast, friendly, effective and professional manner. Release Notes Dialog Director v0.7 has many changes and new features. Please read the User Guide. It is in MS Word 4 format, but any decent word processor should be able to open it. It contains full details of the changes as well as all functions and features of Dialog Director along with script examples, descriptions of all the files in the “Examples” folder, instructions for using Dialog Dumper and other useful information. This release also includes Resource Utilities v1.1b1 that resolves a couple of conflicts and adds the facility to access the resource forks of the current script and application and to keep a resource file in the access chain so that its resources are accessible to Dialog Director etc. Updating from Dialog Director v0.6 to v0.7 Basically, DD v0.7 is not fully compatible with DD v0.6 nor is it backwards compatible with the …

DD v0.7 (User Guide) Page 1 of 272 Saved: Tuesday, February 17, 1998 11:37:29 PM Version 0.7, February 1998 Copyright © 1996-1998 Christopher E. Hyde. All rights reserved. drjekyll@hylight.demon.co.uk http://www.hylight.demon.co.uk/ Contents Welcome Licence How You Can Help About the Author Release Notes Installing Dialog Director Auto Dialogs and Live Dialogs Event Handlers dd auto dialog - create, display and interact with a dialog window dd calc dialog bounds - calculate the bounding rectangle of a dialog window dd count dialogs - return the number of open dialogs dd delete - delete dialog items or close and delete a dialog window dd get - retrieve properties from objects dd install- create and initialise the Dialog Director environment dd interact with user - interact with the front dialog window dd make - create one or more dialog items in an open dialog dd make dialog - create and display a dialog window dd set - set properties of objects dd uninstall - clean up and remove the Dialog Director environment Object Classes dialog - data used to create a dialog dialog item - a dialog item push button - a push button item check box - a check box item radio button - a single radio button item radio group - a group of radio buttons pop up - a pop-up menu item list box - a scrolling, text list icon list box - a scrolling, labeled, icon list text field- an optionally labelled editable text item password field - an opaque editable text item static text - a static text item group box - an optionally labelled rectangular frame item pict - a static picture item icon - a static icon item dummy - a dummy dialog item color picker - a colour picking item gauge - a graphical magnitude/progress indicator generic control - a generic control item icon push button - a push button with an icon & a beveled edge icon toggle button - a toggle button with an icon & a beveled edge icon sticky button - a sticky button with an icon & a beveled edge icon radio button - a radio button with an icon & a beveled edge poly push button - a clickable polygon area poly toggle button - a toggling polygon area poly sticky button - a sticky polygon area poly radio button - a radio button polygon area movie controller - a QuickTime movie controller font spec - a text font specification The Global Font Spec Table Dependencies Error Codes Dialog Dumper Introductory Examples Contents of ‘Examples’ Folder Known Problems and Limitations Other Scripting Additions Welcome Welcome to Dialog Director v0.7. This is the February 1998 public release of the Dialog Director scri Please use Dialog Director and tell me what you think. I intend to enhance and maintain it based on th The reason that this release is called v0.7 and not v1.0 is because I am still adding features and the Current features include Dialog item types • Push buttons - with user defined default button,…