New Scripter, 'Remind' Output, Display Dialog -- Width?

I’m using a one-line AppleScript to pipe output from a Unix calendaring program into a dialog whenever I hit a key. It’s:

display dialog (do shell script “echo "==TODAY==";echo"";/usr/local/bin/remind /Users/mike/.reminders”) buttons {“OK”} default button “OK”

However, it always appears on the screen in a somewhat narrow (not incredibly so) window. I would like to be able to define the width of the item, yet I cannot seem to determine how to do so. Any advice?

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

I don’t think it’s possible to change anything of the appearance of “display dialog”, sorry!

This is a kindergarten way of changing the display dialog appearance :stuck_out_tongue:


display dialog "This is a long skinny rectangle"

display dialog return & return & return & return & return & "             This is a box with the text centered" & return & return & return & return & return & return

SC

Here’s another thought on decreasing the width ; archaic and silly, but why not?
If you want to display a short string in a small box, how about


set thislist to {"A short string"}
choose from list thislist with prompt ""

--Compared to a display dialog box
display dialog "For contrast"