Re: Help: Does anyone use legacy message box behavior?

2017-02-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Monte Goulding wrote: >> On 8 Feb 2017, at 11:02 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> Monte Goulding wrote: >> > ...You might think we don’t need to touch it but it has >> > been touched recently because of a change in the way we >> > retain object references. >> >> Now I'm curious: anything

Re: Help: Does anyone use legacy message box behavior?

2017-02-07 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
> On 8 Feb 2017, at 11:02 am, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Monte Goulding wrote: > > >> On 8 Feb 2017, at 3:04 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> > >> My Message Box replacement sets the revMessageBox redirect to empty > >> when it closes, and after

Re: Help: Does anyone use legacy message box behavior?

2017-02-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Monte Goulding wrote: >> On 8 Feb 2017, at 3:04 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> My Message Box replacement sets the revMessageBox redirect to empty >> when it closes, and after doing so the LC IDE Message Box resumes >> normal behavior. > > Yes it does use it but it also (at least the single

Re: Help: Does anyone use legacy message box behavior?

2017-02-07 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
> On 8 Feb 2017, at 3:04 am, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > I sent this a while ago, and oddly enough another message I'd sent lae came > in but this one did not. > > After thinking about this some more, I wonder: are you sure the LC IDE >

Fwd: Re: Help: Does anyone use legacy message box behavior?

2017-02-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
necessary to remove the old behavior? - rg Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Help: Does anyone use legacy message box behavior? Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 07:37:30 -0800 From: Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Monte Goulding wrote:

Re: Help: Does anyone use legacy message box behavior?

2017-02-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Monte Goulding wrote: > I’m in the midst of making the message box redirect work in all > engines (https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/5156 > ) and it would seem > that there’s a legacy message box behavior that could be removed from > the

Re: Help: Does anyone use legacy message box behavior?

2017-02-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Graham Samuel wrote: > ...how would you use this feature, specifically in debugging a > standalone, and what’s wrong with it now? The revMessageBox redirect allows you to use any field to display data that would otherwise go to LC's Message Box; that is, any "put" without a specified

Re: Help: Does anyone use legacy message box behavior?

2017-02-07 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
what the heck is that? Bob S On Feb 6, 2017, at 19:28 , Monte Goulding via use-livecode > wrote: message box redirect ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Help: Does anyone use legacy message box behavior?

2017-02-07 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Forgive my stupidity, but how would you use this feature, specifically in debugging a standalone, and what’s wrong with it now? TIA Graham > On 7 Feb 2017, at 07:16, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 2/6/17 9:28 PM, Monte Goulding via

Re: Help: Does anyone use legacy message box behavior?

2017-02-06 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 2/6/17 9:28 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: Hi Folks I’m in the midst of making the message box redirect work in all engines (https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/5156 ) and it would seem that there’s a legacy message box

Re: Help: Does anyone use legacy message box behavior?

2017-02-06 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 02/06/2017 07:28 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: I’m in the midst of making the message box redirect work in all engines (https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/5156 ) and it would seem that there’s a legacy message box

Help: Does anyone use legacy message box behavior?

2017-02-06 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
Hi Folks I’m in the midst of making the message box redirect work in all engines (https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/5156 ) and it would seem that there’s a legacy message box behavior that could be removed from the engine. It’s not used