publish and surprise

Paul Dupuis paul at researchware.com
Wed Oct 2 08:52:52 EDT 2019


On 10/1/2019 11:52 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
> I have finally gotten around to noticing that LC9.x builds have opened 
> the publish-and-subscribe mechanism to arbitrary messages. I'm not 
> sure when this happened and I'm really not inclined to go searching 
> through all those release notes, but I'm ecstatic over the surprise 
> discovery. This means objects can register interest in certain 
> messages to do something like
>
> object1:
> revIDESubscribe "helloworld"
>
> object2:
> revIDESubscribe "helloworld"
>
> object3:
> ideMessageSendWithParameters "helloworld"
>
> and both object1 and object2 will get notifications, fully 
> implementing the Publish-and-Subscribe design pattern.
>
> Thank you team.
>

Have you tested this is a standalone?

I thought (probably incorrectly) that revIDE... functions/commands were 
only available when running in the IDE?





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