Putting Stuff Before the Message Box

[Jim Ault]

Just chiming in at the end of the thread.

In the PHP environment on a web server there is a special memory area  
called "output buffer"

This has various maintenance functions built in to the PHP system,  
such as
   ob_start();    ob_flush();  ob_implicit();  ob_clean();

and these facilitate building the characters that get sent back to a  
browser, etc.
It is not a good idea to treat this as the normal PHP variable, such  
as $myDataString.

The message box stack is also a special area that began its life in  
Hypercard 1.0
Back then it was unchangeable.
Now that you can dive into the Rev library stack and modify scripts,  
please use caution because there are globals and settings that are  
interconnected between libraries.  You might find strange behaviors  
that cannot easily be traced.

It is cool that we can get under the hood and make such changes.
My preference is not to do this since Rev is how I make my living.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote:

> Thanks for thoughtful responses Craig, Peter, and Shao,
>
> So, it wasn't the meds.  As I mostly use the message box for dumping  
> the results  of rough tests, it's good to know its idiosyncrasies so  
> I don't mistakenly think I've goofed.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Gregory
>
>
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