Console container for put function?

[Peter W A Wood]

Thanks for the insight and suggestion, Richard. I’ve gone with the “MyPut” option for the moment.

Regards

Peter

> On 24 Apr 2015, at 23:22, 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.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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