SEND_EVENT

Syntax

SEND_EVENT {jobname$ | jobID | jobnr,tag }, event

Location

SMSQ/E v2.71+

With v1.51 of the Window Manager (and v2.71 of SMSQ/E), the possibility of Job Events was introduced. This is basically a simple way of making one program wait until it receives notification from another Job that up to eight different events has occurred.

The events are undefined and simply represented by the eight numbers : 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128. This command allows you to tell a specified job that those events have occurred - several events may be notified by adding together the various values of event. The job to be notified can be represented by either its:

  1. Jobname (eg. ‘SBASIC’)

  2. Job ID number (returned by OJOB for example).

  3. Job number and Job Tag (returned by JOBS).

Example

SEND_EVENT OJOB(1), 2+8

Notifies the current job’s owner that events 2 and 8 have occured.

CROSS-REFERENCE

A job can test to see if an event has occured with WAIT_EVENT.