On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, R�diger zu Dohna wrote:
What happened today, did R�diger come back from a sabbatical or
something? ;-)
> >2) Some way to call a specific handler of a specific object. For
> >regular handlers, "send" is a reasonable way to do this, albeit slower
> >(because the arguments must be evaluated) and more wordy. But other
> >than SuperCard, which has a "via" construct, none of the xTalks can
> >call a function in another object's script. One way to do this would
> >be to give names to these "libraries" so that you could do something
> >like:
> >put somelibrary:somefunction() into field 1
> >The names could just be the name of objects, I suppose, but this
> >doesn't look so hot:
> >put stack "mylibrary":somefunction() into field 1
>
> I have allways wondered, why there is no
> request somefunction(p1,p2) from stack "mylibrary"
> The syntax is used by HyperCard for AppleScripts.
And the return value gets put into "it"? Not my favorite technique...
Scott
> Regards
> R�diger
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