Can Message Box retain messages?

[Nonsanity]

I think the confusion in this thread stems for the fact the message box as a
top section and a bottom section. I think everyone can agree that the top
section has a history, and the up and down arrowkeys move through that
history there.

It's the bottom half of the message box that this thread is really about,
and getting at a large amount of output sent to that half. There is no
"result" history in the message box, as is. Yes, the IDE scripts can be
modified to add that functionality, or you can just use some other field to
hold the output of interest. I prefer that method myself as I can be sure
that only my script knows about field "output" and so the data collecting
there won't be tainted by output from some other script writing to msg.

 ~ Chris Innanen
 ~ Nonsanity


On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Jim Ault <jimaultwins at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The arrow up and down works for me on Rev 4.0
>
> A short video on how to discover the message box history for Revolution 4.0
>  http://jimthewebmaster.com/video/messageBoxHistoryBug.mp4
>
> Changing the history is possible without modifying the IDE (which is a
> risky thing to do)
> once you know the storage location.
>
>
>
> On May 7, 2011, at 12:31 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
>
>  Eric Chatonet created a tool that would modify the message box; it's still
>> available. Also Jerry Daniel's Remo has that feature as well. Arrowkey up
>> goes back in time in the MB.
>>
>> On 7 May 2011 10:05, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I modified the message field script in the message box to build a history
>>> of entries. It is considered dicey to meddle with IDE scripts, but this
>>> has
>>> never caused a problem. I just modified the enterInField and
>>> returnInField
>>> handlers resident there, passing the current contents to a list field I
>>> keep
>>> in a toolbox stack.
>>>
>>> Craig Newman
>>>
>>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
>
>
>
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