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[Mike Kerner]

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On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Even easier would be to just pass a single string like so..
>
> myhandler "type=blue,name=fred,something=234"
>
> And use split
>
> split pVar by comma and "="
>
> ending up with an array keyed by name.
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 5:41 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > Here is some code to pass params by name - value pairs. It is relatively
> > easy with the paramCount and param functions of livecode.
> >
> > on mouseUp
> >
> >   myHandler "type=blue","name=fred","something=234"
> >
> > end mouseUp
> >
> >
> > on myHandler
> >
> >   repeat with i=1 to the paramCount
> >
> >     put param(i)&cr into tArg
> >
> >     set itemDel to "="
> >
> >     put item 1 of tArg into tName
> >
> >     put item 2 of tArg into tValue
> >
> >     put "Name:"&&tName&&"= Value:"&&tValue&cr after msg
> >
> >   end repeat
> >
> > end myHandler
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/28/2017 2:42 AM, FlexibleLearning.com via use-livecode wrote:
> > > This is how ChartMaker (www.flexibleLearning.com/chartmaker ) works,
> > with
> > > only the required name-value pairs and in any order. It does make
> > > implementing modifications to chart displays a lot easier for exactly
> the
> > > reasons you give!
> > >
> > > Hugh Senior
> > > FLCo
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> I don't know when OL will be available or how it'll work.  I only know
> > >> one thing it won't support, based on an earlier conversation with Mark
> > >> Waddingham:  R-style arguments (similar in many respects to CSS
> values).
> > >>
> > >> In R, things like the plot command have reasonably-useful defaults, so
> > >> that you can just pass in data with nothing else and get a useful
> > result.
> > >>
> > >> But if you want to tailor it you pass arguments in as name-value
> pairs,
> > >> e.g.:
> > >>
> > >>    plot(cars, type="o", col="blue", ylim=c(0,12))
> > >>
> > >> What I like about that is I'm free from having to remember parameter
> > >> order, which also means I don't need to add a hundred commas if I want
> > >> to pass in a value for the 101st param.
> > >>
> > >> With name-value pairs I can include only the options I want, and in
> any
> > >> order.
> > >>
> > >> Extra bonus points that the purpose of any argument is made explicit
> by
> > >> including its name.  If I see "o" I don't need to count commas and
> guess
> > >> about what that applies to, I know very clearly looking at the name
> > >> provided with it that it governs the plot type.
> > >
> > >
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