Using "send...in <time>" wirh private commands?
Mark Wieder
mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Sat Nov 7 12:41:10 EST 2015
On 11/07/2015 09:13 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> This works:
>
> command SomeTimer
> DoSomething
> send "SomeTimer" to me in 500 millisecs
> end SomeTimer
>
> This doesn't work:
>
> private command SomeTimer
> DoSomething
> send "SomeTimer" to me in 500 millisecs
> end SomeTimer
>
> I can kinda understand why, but I'd like to be able to manage a timer
> from within a library without exposing the timer to other scripts.
>
> Anyone know of a trick for that?
Nope. That has never worked.
I've resigned myself to making the targets of send and dispatch commands
public. The only way I can think of to get around this is to make a
public method that then calls the private one. Same thing with callback
handlers.
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Mark Wieder
ahsoftware at gmail.com
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