Should "dispatch" be extended for timers?

[Scott Rossi]

Sounds like a good idea.  If dispatch is already fast, a timer would just
allow you to slow it down.

BTW, I believe using quotes should make your message "send"-able.

send "clearVideo LayerAlpha, baseLayer, LayerGraphic, LayerAudio" to me in
700 milliseconds


Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 8/26/14 7:09 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

>I love "dispatch", and the more I use it the more I find "send" murky.
>
>With "dispatch" params seem more natural to me:
>
>    dispatch "somecommand" to tSomeObj with tArg2, tArg2
>
>But with "send" it's less clear how params are handled - here's an
>example from the forums today:
>
>   send clearVideo LayerAlpha, baseLayer, LayerGraphic, \
>      LayerAudio to me in 700 milliseconds
>
>Seems like a good guess as to how it should be used, but of course the
>compiler complains.
>
>So given that "dispatch" is also faster, why not use it for everything,
>extending it with "in" to allow timers:
>
>    dispatch "somecommand" to tSomeObj with tArg2, tArg2 in 2 secs
>
>Is there some reason I've overlooked as to why "send" allows timers but
>"dispatch" doesn't?
>
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>  Fourth World Systems
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