Handling Long ID in Params?

[Pete]

Hi Scott,
I'm sure you have good reasons but I'm curious about why you would want to
classify a handler as private if you know you will need to access it from
outside the script that it's in?
Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com>wrote:

> Thanks Ken, you got me on the right path.  I lost so many hours on this
> dumb
> thing, but I think it's a valid concept worth using.
>
> Again, the idea is to be able to execute any private command of a script
> using a single "router" command, with any number of parameters.  The
> caveat,
> as Ken pointed out, is that long object ids need to include "long id of"
> when used as parameters.  The code is simplified below:
>
> command runPrivateCommand pCommand
>   put item 2 to -1 of (word 2 to -1 of the params) into commandParams
>   repeat for each item theString in commandParams
>     -- strip outer quotes of params
>     put char 2 to -2 of theString & comma after theArgs
>   end repeat
>   delete last char of theArgs -- strip trailing comma
>   do pCommand && theArgs
> end runPrivateCommand
>
> So, as a simple example, if a script has a private command:
>
> private command getObjectID pObj
>   answer the id of pObj
> end getObjectID
>
> ...this command can be triggered by any external object via the above
> router
> command (in the same script) with something like this:
>
> runPrivateCommand "getObjectID","long id of" && long id of btn 1
>
>
>
> Thanks again Ken.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
>
>
>
>
> Recently, Ken Ray wrote:
>
> > On Oct 17, 2011, at 4:11 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:
> >>
> >> Maybe this isn't the best method to accomplish what I need, but can
> anyone
> >> see why this is failing?
> >
> > Scott, when you execute the "do", it's getting the text of the button and
> > passing that along instead of the long id that's coming into
> > "routeTheCommand". To make it not evaluate it, call:
> >
> > routeTheCommand "getTheSum","the long id of btn 1"  -- put quotes around
> the
> > second param
> >
> > The other way you could do it would be to insert "the long id of " before
> > theArgs if you knew it was an object reference that was coming in:
> >
> > command routeTheCommand
> >   put word 2 to -1 of the params into commandData
> >   put stripOuterQuotes(item 1 of commandData) into theCommand
> >   put stripOuterQuotes(item 2 to -1 of commandData) into theArgs
> >   put "the long id of " before theArgs
> >   do theCommand && theArgs
> > end routeTheCommand
> >
> > Funky, but it worksŠ
> >
> > :D
> >
> > Ken Ray
> > Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> > Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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