the message box

[Ken Ray]

On 8/19/05 8:57 AM, "Björnke von Gierke" <bvg at mac.com> wrote:

> On Aug 19 2005, at 15:51, Jon wrote:
> 
>> ...
>> Any idea why the Message Box is suddenly getting triggered?
>> ...
>> Here is the current code:
>> 
>> on DisplayMessage msg
>>  put the long time & "  " & msg & Return after field "Memo"   set the
>> vScroll of field "Memo" to the formattedHeight of field "Memo"
>> end DisplayMessage
> 
> msg is a reserved word indicating... the message box :) try to use a
> different name for your var and all should be fine.

This is another reason why a lot of us use "Hungarian Notation (lite)"
(http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/scriptstyle.html), where
variables, parameters, etc. are preceded by a special character. In your
case, since "msg" is a parameter to the DisplayMessage handler, it would be
"pMsg", which doesn't interfere with any reserved words.

Not that it isn't *impossible* to overlap reserved words this (tExt =
'text', sIn = 'sin', etc.), but it *is* very rare that this would happen.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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Email: kray at sonsothunder.com