Can I set up a delayed message queue?

[Scott Rossi]

Perhaps I'm not understanding your comment, but I don't believe it's
correct.  Try the following on a card (one button, one field):

[ button script ]

on mouseUp
  repeat 3
    send "doStuff" to me in 1 second
    wait 500 millisecs with messages
  end repeat
end mouseUp


on doStuff
  put "got it" & cr after fld 1
end doStuff

You should get 3 lines placed in the field.


If you're doing anything that causes a blocking action in LiveCode (such
as displaying the answer dialog), it's possible that a sent-in-time
message could get skipped, but for the most part, you should be able to
queue up several of the same message, each with its own id.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 5/7/15, 10:24 AM, "William Prothero" <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:

>Folks:
>I have several timed situations in my app. They run specific handlers in
>a set number of seconds. It looks to me like there can only be a single
>invocation of ³send xyz in myDelay seconds² at a time.
>
>I¹m thinking of setting up a queue to do this. I¹m thinking of a handler
>that sends a message to itself every second, then activates various
>handlers when their delay time is satisfied. So I¹d need to manage these
>times in my own handler. I can do this, but wonder if I¹m on the right
>track.
>
>Best,
>
>Bill
>
>William A. Prothero
>http://es.earthednet.org/
>
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