msgbox question

sabev · Nov 6, 2002

Hi All,

I have a number of .asp pages containing VBscript. Is there a way to insert a msgbox in these to display some quick info for debugging purposes? I have tried a message box and nothing happens likewise with a jscript alert function thus –

%>
<html>
<script type="Javascript">
alert("test&quot

;
</script>
</html>
<%

Thanks

mwolf00 · Nov 6, 2002

You can't fire alerts and messageboxs on the server side. I usually response.write/response.end to see where my program is as certain places during execution.

response.end will stop your execution at that point - if an error is happening you need to reponse.end before the error executes.

Good Luck!

MrGreed · Nov 6, 2002

Javascript (alert) and VBScript (msgbox) are client side scripting functions and cannot be called within asp. USe response.write and then response.end, that will output to the screen debug code.

If there are no errors on your page or use use a on error resume next then you could do something like the following:

<html>
<script type="Javascript">
alert("<%=yourdebugmsg%>&quot

;
</script>
</html>
"did you just say Minkey?, yes that's what I said."

MrGreed

sabev · Nov 6, 2002

Thanks guys, I was kinda worried that I was barking up the wrong tree. Got Visual Basic on the brain. Enough differences to hang me up.

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