Parameters of pending messages

[Peter T. Evensen]

  I wound up saving the parameters in an array like you have below, but 
based on message name vs ID (I don't queue up more than one of a particular 
message).

Rev knows what the parameters are... it seems like there should be a way to 
get them.

My suspend and resume are like what you have below.  I just forgot about 
the parameters and it was causing all sorts of errors because the QA 
testers were switching off my stack and back.  I wasn't doing that when I 
was testing myself, so I didn't see the errors.

Thanks for the suggestions!

At 12:33 PM 6/26/2006, you wrote:
>On 25/6/06 19:42, Peter T Evensen wrote:
>>Is there any way to get the parameters that were passed to pending messages?
>>What I want to do is suspend pending messages when a stack is suspended 
>>and then reinstate them when the stack is resumed.  I just realized 
>>pendingMessages() only gives the message name, not any of the parameters.
>>Any help would be appreciated!
>
>I think the best you can do is store the parameters (or whatever useful 
>info you need to key on) in a global or script-local array, keyed on the 
>message ID.
>
>If you're doing this a lot, you might want to buffer it by using your own 
>handler wrapped round the "send" command, eg
>
>on mySend tMessage, tDestination, tWhen
>   global gaMessageID2message
>   do "send tMessage to" && tDestination && "in" && tWhen
>   get the result -- should be the message id
>   put tMessage into gaMessageID2message[it]
>end mySend
>
>Your normal use could be something like:
>
>         mySend "foo bar", "me", "3 seconds"
>
>then when you're suspended, something like this
>         put the pendingMessages into gSuspendedMessages
>         repeat for each line tRec in gSuspendedMessages
>           cancel message id (item 1 of tRec)
>         end repeat
>
>
>and when you're resumed:
>         repeat for each line tRec in gSuspendedMessages
>           put item 1 of tRec into iOldMessageID
>           put (some calculation based on item 2 of tRec) into tWhen
>           mySend gaMessageID2message[iOldMessageID], (item, 4 of tRec), tWhen
>         end repeat
>
>NB all the above typed into email, not Rev, and some of it pseudo-code...
>
>Obviously, depending on your actual situation you may be able to do 
>something more elegant, eg if this only applies for something with a long 
>and ugly destination expression, it might be easier not to have to make 
>that into a properly quoted up string.
>
>HTH,
>
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