Should "dispatch" be extended for timers?

[Peter M. Brigham]

On Aug 29, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> One other question regarding send.  You can "dispatch function" - is there
> a way to send a message to a function and get hold of the result (obviously
> without a time specified)?

Look at the "call" command. This works for commands contained in the scripts of other objects, and I thought you could use if for functions too, but as I just experimented with it, I can't get that to work. However, you can do this:

put the following into the script of fld "text":

on testFn x
   return x^2 + 1
end testFn

Then in the script of some other object you can:

call "testFn 3" of fld "test"
put the result

And you will indeed get "10" in the message box.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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