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Re: Deafult or optional arguments to handlers
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Re: Deafult or optional arguments to handlers


  • Subject: Re: Deafult or optional arguments to handlers
  • From: "Daniel A. Shockley" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:12:55 -0400

Subject: Re: Deafult or optional arguments to handlers
Cc: email@hidden (Michael Sullivan)
To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>


Paul, I do something similar (although not with the nice 'here's what I do' feedback). I also put a simple default parameters ability and required parameters check in my handler template as follows:

if class of parameters is record then
-- if you're going to use record-passed parameters, then here's
-- a simple way to have default values
set defaultParameters to {someOption:"", someOtherOption:"", responseType:"Record"}
set parameters to parameters & defaultParameters
end if

try
set requiredParam1 to requiredParam1 of prefs
set requiredParam2 to requiredParam2 of prefs
on error errMsg
error handlerName & " FAILED (a required parameter is missing):" & errMsg
end try


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