UPDATE: Make stack close itself

[Bob Sneidar]

Okay well that is making a little more sense. So if I put an on idle handler in all my stacks and then pass the message, it should filter down to my mainstack. I suppose I could insert the stack-closing-code in all my substacks, but that makes me feel dirty somehow. ;-)

Bob S


On May 21, 2014, at 11:28 , Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> Alejandro Tejada wrote:
>> Idle command only runs on the stack when it has
>> the mouse pointer focus... or at least this is how
>> I understand this behavior of Idle.
> 
> Good catch, Alejandro.
> 
> There are a handful of messages which have this sort of "existential" behavior (mousewithin is another) - from the Dictionary entry for "idle":
> 
>   Note: If there is no idle handler anywhere in the message path,
>   no idle message is sent.
> 
> That Dictionary entry also provides examples of using timers instead, noting:
> 
>   Note: Usually, it is easier and more efficient to use the send
>   in time form of the send command than to use an idle handler,
>   especially if a task needs to be executed at regular intervals.
> 
> 
> One of the reasons LiveCode is arguably the fastest xTalk ever is that great care has been put into pruning messages and token table lookups....
> 
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