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QUESTION:
I have a program where I need to fill 4 different List objects that are children of a Group object. I am using the Broadcast command to send Add_Item to the Group object, but only the first List object was completely filled. The other List objects had only the first item added.
I replaced the Broadcast Send with Broadcast No_Stop Send and now all the lists are getting filled.
Shouldn't Broadcast Send have done the same?
ANSWER:
The broadcast command works as expected.
The difference you see is because Add_Item returns a value at runtime level -- it will return the value of current_item -- and that value could be 0 or non-zero.
In your program, when using Broadcast without an option(i.e. Broadcast Send Add_Item Msg_None "{Value}"), the return value for the first Add_Item for all lists is 0. When the second Add_Item is executed, its return value will be 1 (because that is the current_item value now) and broadcast will stop at the first list. For the same reason, when you use "Broadcast No_Stop" you get the behavior you were expecting from Broadcast and all lists (ignoring the non-zero return value) will have all the items added.
In the Help, the description for "Broadcast No_Stop" is the following:
"...the No_Stop option allows a Broadcast Get command to continue broadcasting even after an object returns a non-zero value for a Get message."
It leads you to believe only Broadcast Get will return some value. However, a value can be returned at runtime level (even for Broadcast Send), affecting the behavior of Broadcast in the way explained above.
Contributed By:
Sonny Falk
Company: Data Access Worldwide
Web Site: http://www.dataaccess.com
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