calling a remote function..

[J. Landman Gay]

Ken Ray wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0600, Chipp Walters wrote:
>> Ding ding. You win the prize.
>>
>> answer value("foo(" & q(param1) & comma & q(param2) & ")", btn "bar")
> 
> Boy, I long for the simplicity that SuperCard uses to do this kind of 
> thing. They have a "via" keyword that lets you point to the object who 
> should be processing the function. In SuperCard, this would be:
> 
>   answer foo(param1,param2) via btn "bar"

The cheap hack is:

   insert script of <object> into back
   answer foo(param1,param2)
   remove script of <object> from back

I've had to do this a couple of times and it works fine. Easy too.

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