Blast message to multiple objects..

[Mike Bonner]

Does anyone know a way to get _internal calls to function outside of the
ide?

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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