Most Efficient Method?

[richmond62]

Call a commonly used routine from a BUTTON, FIELD or CUSTOM PROPERTY?
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[bogs]

Actually, wouldn't the more efficient way to do this be

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set the backGroundColor of btn "B2" to red
send "set the backGroundColor of btn "B2" to blue" to this stack in 2 seconds

...Or at least, the less blocking version I guess...

As far as running the sample goes, I had the following results -
* click the 'do button' button, worked
* click the 'do field' button produced the following error -

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button "Do FIELD": execution error at line 2 (do: error in source expression) near "set the backGroundColor of btn "B2" to red", char 1

* click the 'do cust.prop' button worked
* click the script button worked.

Edit - for those of us that are modern challenged, may want to include the least version it will work in as well

[Klaus]

Most effective is to put this into a handler in the card or stack script:

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command your_fancy_stuff
   set the backGroundColor of btn "B1" to red
   wait 2 secs
   set the backGroundColor of btn "B1" to blue
end your_fancy_stuff

And just execute it when clicking the button or field:

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on mouseup
  your_fancy_stuff
end mouseup

Using a Custom Property this way does not seem to be effective at all.

[richmond62]

Thanks Klaus.

I made this stack using LiveCode 8.1.10 on macOS 10.14.

The "Do FIELD" button works under those parameters.

[Klaus]

Thanks Klaus.

I made this stack using LiveCode 8.1.10 on macOS 10.14.

The "Do FIELD" button works under those parameters.

Sure, but "do" is always slower than direct access/execution of the script.

[richmond62]

"do" is always slower

It's just been one of those zippy-de-doo-da days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWyhj7siEY