Putting Stuff Before the Message Box

[Gregory Lypny]

I agree, Jim.  Not worth the risk or the bother.

	Gregory

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009, at 1:00 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
  wrote:

> Message: 13
> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:50:08 -0700
> From: Jim Ault <jimaultwins at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Putting Stuff Before the Message Box
> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> 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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