SO does that mean that if he used BACKGROUND is a SubRoutine he would get the "correct" or "desired" action , from his point of view? It would jump to the "1" Extension in the SUBROUTINE ?
Tilghman Lesher wrote: > On Thursday 10 July 2008 19:13:50 Douglas Garstang wrote: > >> It's a known problem. >> >> If you call Background() in a macro, then Asterisk will look for the >> extensions to jump to in the CALLING Macro/context and NOT the Macro that >> the Background() app was called in. >> > > I wouldn't call it a known problem. It works precisely as it was designed to > work. It may not work the way that you want it to, but it works like a Macro: > an independent set of instructions, with substitution, that acts as if it were > invoked inline with the calling location. That is why Background will match > in the context of the calling location: it acts like it never left that > original context (and, in a way, it really didn't). > > Subroutines are a different beast, and they are available with the Gosub/ > Return set of routines in app_stack.so. > > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users