Pick a button, any button – so long as it’s the first one

Recently, I was using the Show Custom Dialog function to provide a series of options to the end user. My original intention was to allow input of 3 alternate phone numbers and then depending on which button was selected, identify one of the phone numbers as the default/preferred.

In my initial testing it seemed to be working ok however after further testing the process began to fail. A quick session with the debugger confirmed that it was working ok sometimes, but not all the time. The script looked ok, the logic seemed correct, but still no joy.

If all else fails – RTFM. A quick review of the help entry for Show Custom Dialog uncovered a specific detail that I wasn’t aware of.

Given I can configure the buttons to be labelled in any way and also script the underlying logic to behave differently based on which button is clicked I’m not sure why this restriction is required.

But, at least I’m now aware of this behaviour - and so are you.