Console container for put function?

[Mike Bonner]

Nifty!  Thanks! Wow there are a lot of hidden jewels in lc.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> Peter Wood wrote:
>
> > I’m planning on writing some library functions for testing that can
> > be called from either a GUI stack or a server script. When called
> > from a GUI script it will display its results in a Field, when called
> > from a server script it will displays its result in the console.
> >
> > I’m trying to find a better way than:
> >
> >       if the environment is “server” then
> >               put tResult
> >       else
> >               put tResult after Field tReport
> >       end
>
> Two options come to mind, each with their own tradeoffs:
>
> 1. Custom "put" handler
> You could use something like "MyPut" instead of "put", so the branching is
> in just one place.  Easy to write, but difficult to accommodate since it
> would mean changing every place you currently use "put".
>
> 2. revMessageBoxRedirect
> That's a global property which is empty by default, and when empty "put"
> output goes to stdOut when faceless and to a stack named "Message Box" when
> in the IDE as you found.  But when set to the long ID of any object, that
> object will then receive "msgChanged" messages for any puts which could be
> handled however you like, such as displaying the msg string in a field in
> your own stack.
>
> The downside with the latter is that as long as the revMessageBoxRedirect
> is not empty, you'll be responsible for handling all Message Box actions;
> that is, you'll lose the IDE's Message Box as a place for output, for any
> and all scripts that might otherwise "put" to it.
>
> But if that's what you're looking for, revMessageBoxRedirect can be
> handy.  I have a Message Box replacement that uses it and it's been a
> godsend.
>
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