Handling Long ID in Params?

[Scott Rossi]

Thanks Ken, you got me on the right path.  I lost so many hours on this dumb
thing, but I think it's a valid concept worth using.

Again, the idea is to be able to execute any private command of a script
using a single "router" command, with any number of parameters.  The caveat,
as Ken pointed out, is that long object ids need to include "long id of"
when used as parameters.  The code is simplified below:

command runPrivateCommand pCommand
   put item 2 to -1 of (word 2 to -1 of the params) into commandParams
   repeat for each item theString in commandParams
     -- strip outer quotes of params
     put char 2 to -2 of theString & comma after theArgs
   end repeat
   delete last char of theArgs -- strip trailing comma
   do pCommand && theArgs
end runPrivateCommand

So, as a simple example, if a script has a private command:

private command getObjectID pObj
   answer the id of pObj
end getObjectID

...this command can be triggered by any external object via the above router
command (in the same script) with something like this:

runPrivateCommand "getObjectID","long id of" && long id of btn 1



Thanks again Ken.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design




Recently, Ken Ray wrote:

> On Oct 17, 2011, at 4:11 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe this isn't the best method to accomplish what I need, but can anyone
>> see why this is failing?
> 
> Scott, when you execute the "do", it's getting the text of the button and
> passing that along instead of the long id that's coming into
> "routeTheCommand". To make it not evaluate it, call:
> 
> routeTheCommand "getTheSum","the long id of btn 1"  -- put quotes around the
> second param
> 
> The other way you could do it would be to insert "the long id of " before
> theArgs if you knew it was an object reference that was coming in:
> 
> command routeTheCommand
>   put word 2 to -1 of the params into commandData
>   put stripOuterQuotes(item 1 of commandData) into theCommand
>   put stripOuterQuotes(item 2 to -1 of commandData) into theArgs
>   put "the long id of " before theArgs
>   do theCommand && theArgs
> end routeTheCommand
> 
> Funky, but it worksŠ
> 
> :D
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 
> 
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