get function() of the target?

Alex Rice alrice at ARCplanning.com
Fri Feb 14 14:38:01 EST 2003


On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 05:18  PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:

> At 1:53 PM -0800 2/13/03, Alex Rice wrote:
>> The problem is that when the preOpenCard handler runs in the 
>> mainstack,
>> I want to call the isActiveCard() function that's defined in *the
>> target* card, not the mainstack.
>
> It sounds like you need the value function.

Ah! Thanks.

> See "How to call a custom
> function that's not in the message path", too.
>
I can't find this in the docs. What section of the Dev Guide? I did 
find a similar tip in RevNet though, which says to use value().

Thanks,

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alrice at ARCplanning.com
alrice at swcp.com






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