[TxMt] tm_dialog and really long plists

[Allan Odgaard]

On 26. Apr 2007, at 02:59, Brett Terpstra wrote:

> Is there a limit to the size of a plist for tm_dialog?

There is a limit to how many bytes you can pass as arguments to a  
shell command, so yes (if you use -p/--parameters)

> If so, is there a workaround? [...]

Yes, pass the plist as stdin instead of via -p, then you also do not  
need to shell escape it.

So from Ruby, with ‘params’ being a ruby hash:

     open("|\"$DIALOG\" -t#{token}", "w") { |io| io << params.to_plist }