Is there a benefit to adding parameters to send? Or does this just bring it into parity/redundancy with dispatch?
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 3:16 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > There is a PR to change this: > https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/6479 > > Will add args to send and call. > > Thanks, > Brian > On Oct 5, 2018, 6:09 PM -0400, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote: > > A word to the wise (mostly for IDE and extension developers): this will > > successfully compile: > > > > send "test" to button 1 with "ha" > > > > And then if the IDE is swallowing up your error messages (as it does for > > extensions like Navigator) it will even deliver the message "test" to > > button 1, just without any arguments, and then die silently. > > > > Outside of "rev" stacks, it will deliver the message without arguments > and > > then throw an error saying there is no handler "with". I just checked, > and > > amazingly this will work: > > > > on mouseUp > > send "test" to button 1 with "ha" > > end mouseUp > > > > on with > > answer "WTH?" > > end with > > > > But that's obviously unlikely. Far more likely if you're dealing with > > code you wrote before you became aware of "dispatch" (or maybe before > > "dispatch" was a thing -- I think Navigator predates LC 3.5) is that you > > decide to add an argument to a remote call and don't notice that it's a > > "send" rather than a "dispatch", and then spend half an hour trying to > > figure out why your arguments aren't passing through <grumble>. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
