two questions: send and references

[Trevor DeVore]

On Sep 20, 2005, at 10:01 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> Trevor-
>
> Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 8:30:20 AM, you wrote:
>
>> Try stuffing the values you want to send into variables and then do
>> this:
>
>> get the long id of field "xyz"
>> send "hi it" to field "abc" of card "argh"
>
> Thanks. Unfortunately, I need to pass two of these fully-qualified
> identifiers at one pass. I'd need two separate "it" variables to do
> this.

No problem.

put the long id of field "myfield" into tObj1
put the long id of field "myfield2" into tObj2

send "hi tObj1, tObj2" to field "abc" of card "argh"

>> What you have above will work.  The array is passed by reference all
>> the way down the line. In both cases you are passing the array by
>> reference.  I do this in libraries all of the time.
>
> Thanks for the sanity check. It's the "send" and "call" functions that
> are messing things up again. I'm not using the stuff2 handler directly
> but trying to use a virtual pointer to it and the "send" function
> isn't passing the arrays. I forgot about BZ #1240.

Yep, no sending or calling arrays at all.  This is a bummer.


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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com