Richard.
When you say "send" is blocking, in what way? Is this really any different that calling any handler? For example: on mouseUp doSomething end mouseUp on MouseUp send "doSomething" to this card end mouseUp Can you explain the difference? Craig -----Original Message----- From: Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> To: use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Wed, Aug 27, 2014 10:18 am Subject: Re: Should "dispatch" be extended for timers? Peter Haworth wrote: > Sounds like a great idea to me. I seem to remember that one of > dispatch/send is blocking and the other isn't. Could that be a > possible reason for the lack of "in" with dispatch? Both are blocking when called immediately; "send" can become on-blocking by specifying a later time to send the message. dunbarx wrote: > "Send' can, er, send parameters as well as a command. In a button > script: > > on mouseUp > send "putArg" && random(99) && random(99) && "XYZ" to me in 5 > end mouseUp > > on putArg var > put var > end putArg > > You get pairs of random numbers and the text as well. All parameters > come across as a batch. > > Or you can separate in the usual way: > on mouseUp > send "putArg" && random(99) & "," & any char of "ABCD" to me in 5 > end mouseUp > > on putArg var,var2 > put var2 --or the first one or both > end putArg Yes, both "send" and "dispatch" allow passing arguments, but as we saw with yesterday's forum post it seems unintuitive to have to put quotes around things that aren't strings, making "dispatch" feel more natural. Of course in a certain Zen sort of way even variable names are technically strings on some level, but having to quote them to pass them with "send" is something I see a lot of newcomers guess wrong. FWIW I submitted a request to have "dispatch" extended with "in" for timers: <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13287> -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
