StartUp message

[Andre Garzia]

Dave,

also, when you're running a text CGI, the CGI script is "inserted"  
into a stack named "script". if your cgi is

on startup
    put the script of stack "script"
end startup

then you'll see your own source code in the result. This is specially  
useful for debugging. So the startup context in executing text script  
files is stack "script", first card.

Andre

On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Dave Cragg wrote:

>
> On 17 Jan 2007, at 13:14, Mark Schonewille wrote:
>> The startUp message is different. The docs contain the following  
>> description of the startUp message:
>>
>> "Sent to the first stack opened when the application starts up."
>>
>> So, this appears to be exactly true: the message is sent to the  
>> stack and not to the card. This causes some confusion and it is  
>> inconvenient for me, because usually my preOpenstack and startUp  
>> handlers are connected and I would like to look at them in the  
>> same script editor. Moreover, HyperCard does send the startUp  
>> message to the card rather than the stack.
>>
>> I would like to know your opinion about this.
>
> Not an opinion, just an observation. In "cardless" situations such  
> as cgi scripts,the startup message is the only one available.  I  
> have no knowledge of the internal workings of the engine, but I  
> wonder if this is relevant and is part of the reason why "startup"  
> goes to the stack and not the card.
>
> But if it's possible to implement, I can't see any downside.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
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