Default text entered in a puts dialog

Ruby
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I want to put a default answer in the text entry box that appears when
you puts some text.

photoGMT = -4
puts “What time zone are the photos in?”
answer = gets.chomp.to_i

I’d like photoGMT to appear as a default answer. I know this wouldn’t be
very convenient in Terminal, but works well with TextMate.

For ASers this is equivalent to

set photoGMT to -4
display dialog “What time zone are the photos in?” default answer
photoGMT

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On 6/20/07, 12 34 [email protected] 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

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Jano S. wrote:

On 6/20/07, 12 34 [email protected] 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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On Jun 20, 2007, at 2:32 PM, 12 34 wrote:

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

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Morton G. wrote:

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

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

An update fixed the problem.