ever since I learned that you can pass a whole array using the send command the dispatch doesn't seem that much more convenient at all..i do alot of in time commands so this is very convenient to my needs / style
send "mymessage myarray" to this stack for years I thought using this form 'myarray' is sent as a string, but it is actually the whole array and all its data) ..no need to concatenate the variables. On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 8:54 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 10/08/2018 04:41 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: > > Another nice feature of dispatch is that if the handler does not exist > in the target, it will silently and gracefully fail, continuing to > execute code after the call. > > Yeah, that's a double-edged doohickey, though. I *do* use it that way > sometimes as well, but note that if you don't check the result then you > won't know if the dispatch succeeded when you want it to. > > Sometimes silently failing is good, sometimes not so much. YMMV. > > -- > Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.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