Control Structures

tell

Supported By

• XION Scripting Language Standard (1.0)
• OpenXION (1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4)
• OpenXION Base (1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4)

Syntax

tell object to statement

tell object
   statementList
end tell

Object yields a variant that can respond to messages.

Description

The tell structure executes the statement or statements that follow as messages sent to the specified object. Unlike the pass statement, tell returns to the handler or script containing the tell structure after the messages have been intercepted.

See Also

send, pass