send mouseup to control

[Mark Wieder]

On 05/24/2017 10:21 AM, Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Reading LiveCode Dictionary about the target and send,
> could not find an obvious way to get the name of a message
> sender without putting first this name in another container
> (a custom property, a field or a global variable).
> 
> Why do I need to know which control send a message
> to another control?
> 
> Because the handler in the control executes different code
> depending of which control sends it a mouseup handler.
> 
> For now, I am using a mouseup button parameter that
> could be 1 or 2 or 3. If the control receive a mouseup with
> parameter 1, then executes handler 1. If the mouseup is
> received with a parameter 2 then control executes
> handler 2.
> 
> Which other ways could I use to produce the same result?

You could pull the information out of the executionContexts, but you'd 
probably be better off with a bit of refactoring. Instead of sending a 
mouseUp message, I'd send the handler 1 or handler 2 message directly.

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com