Re: Passing a parameter to a timeout

[Alex da Franca]

At 13:34 Uhr -0500 09.02.2005, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:
Hi list...
I can't seem to pass parameters to a timeout object
(scriptexecutionstyle=10).  I'm trying to pass along a cast member name,
but timeouts just don't seem to take params.  Can it be done?
Regards,
- Michael M.
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All within a parent script:
on mWipe(me, theParam)
  theTimeout = timeout().new("theWipe", 33, #mWipeIncrement, me,
theParam)
end
on mWipeIncrement(me, that)
  put me -- <offspring "theTools" 4 244800>
  put that -- timeOut("theWipe")
  timeout("theWipe").forget()
end

you can't do that.
you can 'hijack' the slot, where the target goes, 
if your timeout shall address a moviescript, but 
if you use the target slot for the target script 
instance, then you simply can't.

but as you're already in an object you can store 
the data you want to pass directly in the object:

on mWipe me, theParam
  me.setaprop(#timeOutData, theParam)
  theTimeout = timeout().new("theWipe", 33, #mWipeIncrement, me)
end
on mWipeIncrement me, that
  put me -- <offspring "theTools" 4 244800>
  if ilk(that) = #timeout then that.forget()
  put me.getaprop(#timeOutData)
  me.setaprop(#timeOutData, 0)
end
--
  |||
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