Just want to confirm I understand these commands.

I tend to write applications that run continuously. They loop over and over 
doing the same tasks and pretty much never get to a point to where they halt 
waiting for user input. Thus for me the current script never finishes executing.

The "send blah in X minutes" command appears to only execute once the current 
script has completed, which in my case is never. So I assume I should never use 
the "in X minutes" form and only ever use send as an immediate command such 
that the current script halts and waits for it to complete. Correct?

Dispatch looks to me like send except it makes it easier to include parameters 
and does not include the delay, which I cannot use anyway. Correct?

I was hoping that I could use Send or Dispatch to fire off a bunch of get URL 
commands and then circle back to gather their results, a form of threads or 
multi-tasking but from what I can see in the 4.5 docs, that is not how those 
functions work. Is there a way in LiveCode to spawn a bunch of processes to run 
in parallel and then to process their results as they get returned? 

I'm assuming the answers are: Yes, Yes, No. Just want to make sure I understand 
them.

Kee Nethery_______________________________________________
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