Prevent a Function's Default Writing to tthe SciTe Console During Execution

[leegold 1]

Hi,

I use FF.au3 and there's a function _FFReadHTML(), it reads all the html of a web page into a string. When _FFReadHTML() executes it writes all the hmtl of the page to the SciTe console. I wondered if there's a way to have it work so with $x = _FFReadHTML()  $x gets the string but not have the action that the string wites to the console. Is there a way?

I use the console to debug and having thousands of lines of html in there - I have to scroll like mad...

Thanks

[guinness 1,466]

I don't know that UDF very well, but I am guessing they have left a ConsoleWrite() line in there somewhere, which is either intentional or a debugging thing. If it's intentional then that's a huge no no!

[Danp2 357]

This output is by design. You can adjust it by setting the value of $_FF_COM_TRACE. For example:

#include <FF.au3>

 _FFStart("google.com")

$_FF_COM_TRACE = False
_FFReadHTML()
$_FF_COM_TRACE = True

[leegold 1]

Thanks so much.

[guinness 1,466]

Hmmm...that should be inside some getter/setter function. Exposing variables like that can lead to problems, especially when you need to verify the integrity of the variable's contents.

[Danp2 357]

Such a function already exists (_FFAu3Option); I just didn't use it.

[guinness 1,466]

As I said I haven't used the UDF not am I in a position to read/download AutoIt code.