Re: intercept an alert

Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Date	2014-05-14 09:57 -0700
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Subject	Re: intercept an alert
From	garrett.smith@acxiom.com

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On Sunday, May 11, 2014 9:38:33 PM UTC-7, Andrew Poulos wrote:
> I've been using a 3rd party web platform to build a web site.
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> The platform can display its own alerts.
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> I need to prevent one of the alerts but as I have no access to the code 
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> that is generating the alert so I'm wondering if there's a way to 
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> intercept it.
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> If its the message in question then it is to be prevented from 
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> displaying otherwise the alert displays as "normal".
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> I thought of doing
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> window.alert = function(msg){
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>    if (msg.indexOf('Is empty') != -1) {
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>      return false;
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>    } else {
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>      // what here
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>    }
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> };
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> but to overwrite the normal function what goes in "what here"?
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> Andrew Poulos

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intercept an alert Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-12 14:38 +1000
  Re: intercept an alert Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-05-12 15:35 +1000
    Re: intercept an alert Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-12 11:32 +0200
      Re: intercept an alert Simon Lewis <simonlewis2001@gmail.com> - 2014-05-12 12:29 +0200
        Re: intercept an alert Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-12 13:30 +0200
        Re: intercept an alert "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-05-12 14:54 +0200
          Re: intercept an alert "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-05-12 15:36 +0200
            Re: intercept an alert Simon Lewis <simonlewis2001@gmail.com> - 2014-05-12 15:40 +0200
              Re: intercept an alert Simon Lewis <simonlewis2001@gmail.com> - 2014-05-12 15:43 +0200
                Re: intercept an alert "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-05-12 16:19 +0200
          Re: intercept an alert Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-12 19:35 +0200
    Re: intercept an alert garrett.smith@acxiom.com - 2014-05-14 09:57 -0700
  Re: intercept an alert Dr J R Stockton <reply1400@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2014-05-13 18:00 +0100
  Re: intercept an alert garrett.smith@acxiom.com - 2014-05-14 09:57 -0700

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