Limit on the number of parameters?

Craig Newman craig at starfirelighting.com
Tue Jun 7 08:49:09 EDT 2022


I have never had any issues with the number of parameters that can be passed to a custom handler. Nor any issue with “seeing” them all in the debugger. I would say that the largest number of params I ever sent was about 15.

Craig



> On Jun 6, 2022, at 4:08 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Phil. I checked in the debugger both the call to the function where the 5th value was passed as a literal, and in the function itself where the parameter was no defined. It may be something with the SE debugger I'll look into it. 
> 
> Bob S
> 
> 
>> On Jun 6, 2022, at 13:00 , Phil Davis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> In LC 9.6.7, this works in a button script:
>> 
>>  on mouseUp
>>       tryThis "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "66", "777", "8888", "9", "10"
>>  end mouseUp
>> 
>> 
>>  command tryThis
>>       put the params -- the handler name and all 10 params are there
>>  end tryThis
>> 
>> 
>> I often stuff lots of data items into an array and use the array as a param. For me, that makes life easier. YMMV.
>> 
>> Phil Davis
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/6/22 11:45 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
>>> Is the number of parameters passed to a custom handler limited to 4? I do not seem to be getting a 5th parameter to pass to a function I use.
>>> 
>>> Bob S
>>> 
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