Can I call a function that is in a different script?

[Jan Schenkel]

--- erik hansen <erikhans08 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu> wrote:
> > At 12:01 -0500 2003/03/09, Richard Gaskin
> > wrote:
> > >  > Suppose I have a function defined in some
> > field's script. Can I call
> > >>  it from a handler in another field's
> > script?
> > >
> > >See the call commond.
> > 
> > That seems to be for handlers; I needed a
> > function because I need the 
> > return result.
> > 
> > In fact, "call" is almost like "send", and in
> > my case "call" would be 
> > precisely wrong, because I want a function
> > result based on local data 
> > of the other handler, not of the calling
> > handler, the way "call" 
> > would imply.
> 
> i remember a workaround from somewhere 
> that "sent" a handler with parameters to a
> script which had a function <inside> the handler.
> 
> how the data was returned, i disremember.
> maybe a global or the result.  
> 
> =====
> erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org
> 

Why not just use the 'value' function ? It has a
second parameter that lets you determine in the
context of which object it should be executed. Example
:
  get value("Foo()", fld "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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