On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 14:46, John Brown wrote: > Hi list, > > been playing with * for a bit now and have found at > least two things that make it difficult. > > 1. priority numbers in extensions.conf > > This line numbering gig can be a PIA. While I under- > stand there needs to be a way to branch control (ergo > goto), it would seem that line numbering is tied to > 1,2,3,4 as in > > exten => s,1,doblah > exten => s,2,dofi > exten => s,3 gogetalife > exten => s,4 goto(s,2) > > now if you want to insert something you have to renumber > all of the lines below, ICK comes to mind. > > So I figured I'd try > > exten => s,10,doblah > exten => s,15,dofi > exten => s,20,gogetalife > exten => s,25,goto(s,15) > > but this doesn't seem to work at all. * just barfs on the > the call. > > I would think that * would read these lines in and order them > as I've labled them. the * code should do : > > when calling an exten: goto first line in the link list of > lines > > when executing a goto: goto the node that matches the label, or > create a quicky hash of lables -> node pointers to match quickly
It isn't so much for the goto's that it matters, but for error conditioning. Currently some things like dial will jump to n+101 when there was an error, and just n+1 when everything is fine. BTW, I don't know if this is just something in my vimrc, or even if you are used to using vim, but ctrl-a while your cursor is on a number will increment it up by 1. It even works when it needs to add new digits in like going from 9 to 10. Makes it real easy to follow the priority down through a section pressing ctrl-a and not fumbling for the numbers. Beware that if you use screen, screen will swallow up your ctrl-a unless you have reconfigured it to something else. > The second item: > > It would be nice to have a Gosub type command. That > way you could pop off to a standard strain of code, even > nest a bit and then by the magic of a stack pop back to > previous parts...... You need to learn about macros. Macros allow you to make a generic section of extensions and call it with information about what it is to be doing. Basically a gosub is a cheap way of making unnamed subroutines, why not use the macro stuff as better subroutines. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
