Blast message to multiple objects..

Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Thu May 19 19:35:58 EDT 2016


Thank you! I'll start reading.

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.org> wrote:

>
> Rather than have "all controls matching a mask ..." get the message, I
> think it would be better to introduce a publish-subscribe model.
>
> One example (not one you can use directly :-) is in the IDE, see the
> publish/subscribe section of
>
> https://livecode.com/how-to-create-plugins-and-tools-with-the-livecode-8-0-ide/
>
> but those ideas could easily be borrowed for your own purpose (or, maybe
> less easily, made into a general-purpose library for all to use).
>
> -- Alex
>
>
> On 19/05/2016 23:38, Mike Bonner wrote:
>
>> I don't suppose its possible to dispatch or send a message to a group of
>> objects all at once is there?  (for example lets call a bunch of buttons
>> named *cough* sprite##)
>>
>> Its not that difficult to write a loop to dispatch to each, but it would
>> be
>> very interesting if one could release a message into the wild, and all
>> controls matching a mask would sit up and take notice.
>>
>> It would be nice to be able to pop out an "reintialize" message, and any
>> controls with that particular handler would.. well.. reinitialize.
>>
>> Just curious.
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