Global Fields and Custom Messages

[dickiedyce]

Hi,

Trying to use 7's built-in custom message script step to get two values into a pair of global fields... strangely, it's not storing them. I'm definitely in browse mode, but the fields stubornly refuse to accept data. Any ideas? Is this a known problem?

(BTW, I'm using 10.4 - Tiger ... somebody probably wants to update the popup for posting)

[comment]

Make sure your OK button is the rightmost button. It is the only button that will write information from the input fields to a file.

[dickiedyce]

Heh heh - and I always make sure that I swap the buttons to deal with the PC close box = button 1 problem. Have they fixed this for PC users under 7 then?

[comment]

: Mac user here...

[dickiedyce]

Well, the problem with the custom message box was always that on PC's the dialog box had a close box - which corresponded to button 1 programmatically, but which most PC users take to mean Cancel... nasty ;-)

[LaRetta]

The 'X' has been removed from the Custom Dialog box - on Windows XP anyway.

I find it ironic that the leftmost button when defining script-step is actually the default - even FM's own dialog boxes display the button choices to their own dialogs in this manner. But default displays for User on the right. It seems counter-intuitive to me. I would think cancel should be the rightmost button. Did they reverse it from prior versions? Or is it a good thing I'm on vacation this week.

[comment]

"The default button should be the button that represents the action that the user is most likely to perform if that action isn