Re: Deafult or optional arguments to handlers
Re: Deafult or optional arguments to handlers
- Subject: Re: Deafult or optional arguments to handlers
- From: email@hidden (Michael Sullivan)
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:30:41 -0400
- Organization: Society for the Incurably Pompous
Olof Hellman writes:
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> In writing a bunch of mods, I'm realizing that I'd really like a way to
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> give clients the opportunity to call a function with optional
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> parameters. Is there any way to do this, other than making the
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> parameter a list or record and then looking through it?
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> I'd like to able to write a function that normally takes a single number
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> argument, but behaves differently if there are two arguments, etc.
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> Is having the client pass a list or record for the multiple parameter
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> option, the only way?
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> Overloading or default arguments would really be a nice feature, don't
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> you think?
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Trivial and elegant if you write a scriptable application. The default
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arguments can also be scriptable.
Can one write a scriptable application in AS, or does this mean writing
elsewhere?
I assume this means parsing the raw apple events for the call? Can one
put in a handler for On <event code>(paramList) or some such?
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In the case of an applet, using a record for the parameters is the best way
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to go.
This is what it seems like for now.
Michael
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