pendingmessages

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Jun 18 14:08:01 EDT 2003


Dar Scott wrote:

> 
> On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 09:37 AM, Martin Meili wrote:
> 
>> Can anybody comment on this and help me?
> 
> I forgot to mention the Pending Messages view on the Message Box.  This
> can be very handy.
> 
> You can use this to look at the messages and even cancel them.  By
> checking the right box, you can see these in real time and even see the
> Revolution messages.
> 
> I have never seen messages like mouseUp in pendingMessages.  However,
> messages like moveStopped and socketClosed will show up there.
> 
> This also can help you learn the format of the value returned from
> pendingMessages.  That value consists of a line for each message.  The
> items of each line are organized like this:
> 
> item 1          message ID
> item 2          time/date of when message should run in "seconds format"
> (I have sent messages to the past but I have yet to get
> them to run in the past, so
> I use this for priority sends, year 2000 = high
> priority, year 1990 = hot priority.)
> item 3          handler to get the message
> item 4 to -1    the long id of the object to get the message (think
> item 4)
> 
> Not all message information is supplied by pendingMessages.
> 
> Puzzle for Revolutionaries:  Watch messages in realtime.  There is one
> message you can't ever see, even though it is almost always in the
> pendingMessages.  What message is that?

quit?

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