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 > <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 by the IDE. The behavior is if no message > box redirect is set then it looks for a stack named “Message Box”, > sets the text of the first field then raises the stack. As this is > only an IDE thing I strongly suspect we are ok to remove the code > but while I’m waiting for the team to wake up in Scotland I thought > I’d check here! > > It would be easy to work around even if you have been depending on it > because it’s just setting the property and then handling msgChanged > to put msg where ever you want.
IIRC what you describe is the original engine behavior which drove the MC IDE. I believe that was also used by early versions of the LC IDE.
The revMessageBoxRedirect global property was a solution added to satisfy a request I had for being able to use the MC IDE as a plugin within LC. If the LC IDE now also uses that property itself that would seem a cleaner implementation.
Removing the engine behavior you describe will break the MC IDE, but given how few people use it these days I don't think that should be a reason to clutter the code base. Those interested could easily add the one line of code needed to use revMessageBoxRedirect instead.
Personally, I don't use anything dependent on the older behavior, but I do use revMessageBoxRedirect very extensively; among other things I've been using a custom Terminal-like Message Box replacement for years.
Being able to use my custom Message Box in a standalone would be a godsend. If removing the old behavior makes a cleaner way to do that I say go for it.
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