Thank you! I'll start reading. On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Alex Tweedly <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Rather than have "all controls matching a mask ..." get the message, I > think it would be better to introduce a publish-subscribe model. > > One example (not one you can use directly :-) is in the IDE, see the > publish/subscribe section of > > https://livecode.com/how-to-create-plugins-and-tools-with-the-livecode-8-0-ide/ > > but those ideas could easily be borrowed for your own purpose (or, maybe > less easily, made into a general-purpose library for all to use). > > -- Alex > > > On 19/05/2016 23:38, Mike Bonner wrote: > >> I don't suppose its possible to dispatch or send a message to a group of >> objects all at once is there? (for example lets call a bunch of buttons >> named *cough* sprite##) >> >> Its not that difficult to write a loop to dispatch to each, but it would >> be >> very interesting if one could release a message into the wild, and all >> controls matching a mask would sit up and take notice. >> >> It would be nice to be able to pop out an "reintialize" message, and any >> controls with that particular handler would.. well.. reinitialize. >> >> Just curious. >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
