You cannot pass extra parameters that way. You can do this:
widget.system ("blah", function(x) {dosomething(x, "2006");});
jl
> Asynchronous Operation is a double edged sword, on one hand you can
> execute scripts without having to wait for the output, but then
> designing a Asynchronous schema taxes my brain.
>
> Is it possible to pass variables to the Asynchronous end handler? I am
> attempting to read the contents of a directory, however, if a
> directory exists within the directory I want to read the contents of
> that.
>
> I can read the contents of the first directory, no problem, I can then
> read the contents of the second directory no problem, the trouble is
> on the third tier.
>
> Archive
> 2006
> 01
> 02
> 03
>
> I can read Archive I get a list that contains "2006", I can then read
> the contents of "2006" and get "01\n02\n\3\n" which I convert to an
> array, but I want to read the contents of each of those dirs, but to
> do that it needs to know that its coming from "Archive/2006". If it
> was synchronous I could just set a temporary variable that stored the
> "2006", but because its Asynchronous I can't.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> listsDir = widget.system("/bin/ls " + prefsPath + "/Archive",
> endHandler, "2006");
>
> Otherwise I'm stumped...
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated
>
> thanks
>
> -js
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