Error using EditBox in RhinoScript for Mac

Rhino Rhino for Mac
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Hi,

When I try running the python script below in Rhino for Mac I get an error. The MessageBox function usually works, but EditBox function won’t. When I run the script Rhino freezes and I have to use force quite in the Activity Monitor. Is this a problem specific to Mac, or am I just doing something wrong?

Script:
import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
text = rs.EditBox(message=“Enter some text”)
rs.MessageBox(text)

Error Message:
Message: Method not found: ‘System.Windows.Forms.Form.set_AcceptButton’.
Traceback:
line 70, in EditBox, "/Users/davidsnaddon/Library/Application Support/McNeel/Rhinoceros/MacPlugIns/IronPython/settings/lib/rhinoscript/userinterface.py"
line 3, in , “/Users/davidsnaddon/Documents/Rhino Design/DBox.py”

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Also, forgot to mention. I am running on rhinoceros_wip_20131023, on OS Mavericks downloaded on 2013/10/23, on a 2009 MacBook Pro

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Yes, all the “box” user input methods (ListBox, etc.) use WindowsForms code, which do not run on a Mac and most often cause Rhino to crash. It’s on the list to be adapted, but I don’t know when it will be fixed. The only thing you can use reliably for use input are the “Get” methods - such as GetString. Since the Mac doesn’t have a command line by default, this pops up a (Mac)box anyway.

HTH, --Mitch

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Oh ok. Thanks very much!

Was quite confused that MessageBox works and not EditBox, because MessageBox is described as a Windows message box in the RhinoPython reference (http://4.rhino3d.com/5/ironpython/index.html), so just thought they would have the same limitations on Mac.

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I guess message box is hooked up because it was easy to do…

– Mitch