I don't see this behavior when I try it. Updated win7, lc 5.0.2. Not sure why your results differ unless maybe theres a frontscript doing strange things?
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Bob Sneidar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > I just noticed that if you send or dispatch to an object and you have > specified parameters in the objects handler, but you don't provide the > parameters when you send or dispatch, the call will silently fail. This > seems only to occur for built in handlers, like mouseUp for example. > > If I have a button called "myButton" with a mouseUp handler: > > on mouseUp pButtonNum > put "This is a test" > end mouseUp > > if I: > send "mouseUp" to button "myButton" > > or: > dispatch "mouseUp" to button "myButton" > > The button will never get the message, and no error is generated. This > caught me quiet off guard, as you can for a custom handler just call it, > and even if you don't provide all the parameters, the handler gets called > anyway. > > However, if I have a custom handler: > > on testMe theMessage > put "This is a successful test." > end testMe > > And then I send or dispatch without the parameter, the handler gets called > fine! Is this normal or expected behavior? I cannot think that this kind of > ambiguity is what the devs intended. If someone can give me a reason for > why it has to be this way, I can just watch for it in the future. If not I > suppose I should submit a bug report. > > In the meantime, I suppose the best practice is to never put the business > end of your code in the built in handlers, but rather call a command or > function that does all the work. That way you can send or dispatch to that > handler and not to the built in one. > > Bob > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
