As part of working on modifying the UI so output text can be sent to the command line (see viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3961 ) I have some questions about the Core function ProcessTextSection (PTS) if anyone's game.

For reference here's the function:

<function name="ProcessTextSection" type="string" parameters="text, data">
    <![CDATA[
    
    containsUnprocessedSection = false
    
    open = Instr(text, "{")
    
    if (open > 0) {
      nestCount = 1
      searchStart = open + 1
      finished = false
      
      while (not finished) {
        nextOpen = Instr(searchStart, text, "{")
        nextClose = Instr(searchStart, text, "}")
      
        if (nextClose > 0) {
          if (nextOpen > 0 and nextOpen < nextClose) {
            nestCount = nestCount + 1
            searchStart = nextOpen + 1
          }
          else {
            nestCount = nestCount - 1
            searchStart = nextClose + 1
            if (nestCount = 0) {
              close = nextClose
              containsUnprocessedSection = true
              finished = true
            }
          }
        }
        else {
          finished = true
        }
      }
    }
    
    if (containsUnprocessedSection) {
      section = Mid(text, open + 1, close - open - 1)
      value = ProcessTextCommand(section, data)
      text = Left(text, open - 1) + value + ProcessTextSection(Mid(text, close + 1), data)
    }
    
    return (text)
    ]]>
  </function>

So recall that OutputText calls PTS here,

  <function name="OutputText" parameters="text">
    <![CDATA[
    data = NewDictionary()
    dictionary add (data, "fulltext", text)
    text = ProcessTextSection(text, data)
    OutputTextRaw(text)
    ]]>
  </function>

And from what I understand all msg calls go through OutputText. So my question is pretty basic. Is the purpose of this function to evaluate any expressions (like things in { } ) you've written in your text before they go to output?

Yes, this function handles any text commands (e.g. {cmd:xxxx}, {object:xxx}, etc). It looks for the special { } characters and invokes the text processor for each one.