How to use parameters with sendMesssage

David Burgun dburgun at dsl.pipex.com
Wed Apr 13 14:13:40 EDT 2005


Hi,

It's working now, I just didn't realize you had to put the parameters 
into the string too!

Thanks a lot
Dave


>Recently, David Burgun  wrote:
>
>>  I can't get this to send the correct paramater handler
>>
>>  set myRect to 1,2,3,4
>>
>>  sendMessage "UpdateData " & myRect to group "Update"
>>
>>  on UpdateData theRect
>>  end updateData
>>
>>  UpdateData gets called ok, but "theRect" is set to "1" - the rest of
>>  the list have gone.
>>
>>  How can I send a Rect as a parameter like this?
>
>
>I'm not really sure how your script works at all.  If myRect is a custom
>property, you have to use "the" in front of it, but I don't think that's
>what you're after here.
>
>Try 'put' instead of 'set':
>
>  put 1,2,3,4 into myRect
>  sendMessage "UpdateData " & myRect to group "Update"
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Scott Rossi
>Creative Director
>Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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