I think the question is being asked "backwards".
If you trap a message, it will die in that handler unless passed explicitly. This is simple to understand for the"mousdUp" message, say, because that is trapped for a specific reason, and may or may not be passed, as required. But with "keyDown", the action taken also disrupts what most would consider an automatic engine action, apart, perhaps, from any specific additional user action. So the "automatic" action will not take place unless the message is passed, and this lack of function trips up new users. But there is no intrinsic difference, only that the expectations of the user are different. Craig Newman -----Original Message----- From: J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Mon, May 23, 2016 11:31 am Subject: Re: When is message passing required? On May 23, 2016 8:15:52 AM Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> wrote: > Does anyone have a compiled list of which messages need to be passed or > *should* be passed vs those that you do not have to concern yourself with? There's no real rule about it, it all depends on the stack and it's own set of handlers. In some cases you want the message passed so that another handler can continue to process the message, and in other cases you don't want to do that because further processing isn't wanted or needed. And if there aren't any other handlers in the message path that process the message then it doesn't matter if you pass it or not. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
