message watcher specifics?

Alex Rice alrice at ARCplanning.com
Thu Aug 21 10:33:00 EDT 2003


On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 08:01  AM, Leston Drake wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone tell me what the numbers in paren's after a message line in 
> the Message Watcher is?
> For example:
>   closeCard 7:51:47 AM (4544)
>   closeCard 7:51:47 AM (0)
>   preOpenCard 7:51:47 AM (67)
>
> I thought something like 4544 would be an object ID, but 0 and 67 
> don't seem to match that guess.
> Does someone know for certain what they refer to?

Not 100% certain but a good guess is they are the message ID. When you 
use "send" a message ID is put into "the result". The cancel command 
uses the same id. See also pendingMessages function.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com




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