function calls

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Stephen Messimer <steve at messimercomputing.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to send a call to a function in another stack
> and I can't quite 
> get the syntax.
> 
> When a button is clicked in stack "A" the msg
> "theFlag" is sent to 
> another stack
> ...
> send theFlag to stack "B"
> ...
> The following handlers live in the script of target
> stack "B".
> 
> on theFlag
> 	send function checkStuff  firstThing, nextThing
> end theFlag
> 
> function checkStuff  firstThing, nextThing
>    -- check the stuff
> end checkStuff
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Steve
> 

Hi Steve,

Apart from the obvious change to the 'theFlag' handler
  get checkStuff(firstThing,nextThing)
You might also be interested in the 'value' function,
which has a second parameter, allowing you to set the
context in which the first parameter should be
evaluated ; for example :
  get value("foo()", field "bar")
would return the result of calling the function 'foo'
i n the script of field 'bar'.

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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