Send command only works in Message Box

[townsend]

I've got a Label Field where I put little status messages.
But I only want them to stay there for 10 seconds.
So I wrote a little function to clear the status field in 10 seconds.

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     put "File Saved..." into fld "status" of this stack
     send "call clear.status()" to this stack in 10 seconds

    function clear.status
         beep
         put empty into fld "status" of this stack
    end clear.status

But the clear.status() function gets executed immediately,
instead of 10 seconds later. The strange thing here is,
if I put that same exact, Send line of code, in the Message Box, the
clear.status() function gets executed 10 seconds later, the way it should.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[Klaus]

A function should return something, so maybe you better create a handler here?
At least that's what I would do

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...
  put "File Saved..." into fld "status" of this stack
  send "clear.status" to this stack in 10 seconds
...

command clear.status
   beep
   put empty into fld "status" of this stack
end clear.status

Then you do not need to mess around with "call", which is not necessary here.

But the message box has some known flaws, do not rely on it!


Best

Klaus

[townsend]

Thanks again Klaus!

That worked. Interesting note though. Usually when I call a handler or function,
I like to put the "Call" in there just to make my code more readable.
But in this case, with the added, Call, the beep sounded,
but the put empty command does not work. That's odd.

So-- from now on, I'm going to stop using the unnecessary Call prefix,
and make my handler names distinctive some other way.