ask

Show a Yes/No dialog.

This function shows a Yes/No dialog with the given message. ask will return 1 if the user clicked 'yes' or 0 otherwise.

syntax:

ask

examples:

just bring up the dialog but don't do anything

ask "are you still here?"

returns stuff depending on which button the user hits:

if [ask "are you still here?"] {alert "you should go home";return} else {message "yeah, right";return}

Pops up a box that lets the user type in an arbitrary string.

syntax:
get_input ?default?

example:
get_input "Write something" "something"