Dispatch and send

[Bob Sneidar]

Seems right to me. Dispatch looks for a handler in the script you are dispatching to. You would have to have a handler called ON BEEP which would be illegal and wouldn't compile because BEEP is a reserved word. Try using send instead. 

Bob


On Dec 22, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> David Bovill wrote:
> 
>> Anyone got a reason for this being Appropriate behavior?
>> 
>> dispatch "beep" to this cd -- no beep
>>> send "beep" to this cd -- a beep
> 
> Interestingly, running this in the Message Box:
> 
>  dispatch "beep" to this cd; put it
> 
> ...yields "unhandled"
> 
> You get the same with any build-in command, e.g.:
> 
>  dispatch "go next" to this cd; put it
> 
> Whether this is a weakness in the engine or the documentation is a question of intention:
> 
> Is "dispatch" designed to handle only custom handlers? It appears to be, and if that's what's intended it's working fine and all that's needed is a note in the docs clarifying that.
> 
> But if the intention was that it could be used for built-in commands too then there appears to be a bug in the engine.
> 
> --
> Richard Gaskin
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