Mac/Windows CurrentMessagechoice output

[harryk]

The online help of Filemaker warns that the output of Status(CurrentMessageChoice) is 1 2 3 on Mac, and 0 1 2 on Windows. A friend of mine experiences on Windows 1 2 3 as it is on Mac.

It seems to me it would be rather a handicap if the output on Windows is indeed different, you should rewrite your scripting, or catching the system (Mac/Windows) used with the status function developed for this..

Can some superuser shine his or her light on this?

[Kurt Knippel]

I think that those dialogs are simply OS dialogs, and so they are IDed by the OS. Different versions of the OS will ID them differently. I would not be surprised if Win95 and WinXP do it differently.

I do not remember this issue from when I develop cross-platform so maybe I am wrong on the above.

[harryk]

In the help-text "Show message script step" the filemaker help is explicit:

Windows: 0 rightmost button 1 middle or second 2 leftmost button

Mac OS: 1 2 3

It may very well be that different versions of Windows react differently, but either cross-platform developers do not lean on the message function; avoid it, or ... I really don't know. I want to know how these things behave on different platforms, developing something for those different platforms.

So more reactions are welcome

Harry

[danjacoby]

Not my Filemaker Help. It says:

"Returns 1 for the first button (by default, labeled OK), 2 for the second button (by default, labeled Cancel), and 3 for the third button."

That's it. I'm using v5.0 for Mac. Could it be that v5.5 has a slightly different help file? Or is it the help file in the Windows version?

[RussBaker]

I've always had to do this using nested If Statements in scripts to pick if it is Mac of Win and then tak action accordingly, so it ends up like:

If(Status(CurrentMessage Choice) + if(status(CurrentPlatform)=1,0,1) = 3)

. Do the right button thing

End If

If(Status(CurrentMessage Choice) + if(status(CurrentPlatform)=1,0,1) = 2)

. Do the middle button thing

End If

etc etc

This is also handy for going to different print layouts because WYSIWYG on Windows ain't quite there yet...

[djgogi]

The return codes are the same on both systems. Look at www.filemaker.com/ti/104070.html.

It is an error in windoz help file.

Dj

[harryk]

djgogi has provided the definite answer: it's the same on both systems (perhaps wasn't in very early versions),

but it's there in the mac v 5.0 helpfile too, when you look with "Show message". I think what you see is the answer with ""CurrentMessageChoice". Anyhow, ignore it.

Harry