Renaming a "message"?

perspexsphinx · January 27, 2020, 11:34am

Hi,
How can I rename a “message”?
Also can I give a “list” a name?

snapenilk · January 27, 2020, 12:54pm

To give a list a name, store it in a variable.

bh · January 27, 2020, 6:38pm

I don't understand. Just choose "new" from the pulldown menu and make a new name.

Oh, if you want a way to have all the WHEN I RECEIVE blocks automatically change too, no, I'm afraid you can't do that.

perspexsphinx · January 27, 2020, 6:58pm

Thanks,
But when I make a new “message” the old one is still there…
how do I delete the old miss named message?

donotforgetmycode_sn · January 27, 2020, 7:14pm

If you get rid of all of the blocks which use that message name then it should be deleted.

18001767679 · May 28, 2020, 11:47am

Why would you want to rename a broadcast? you can use lambda narrow casts!

rdococ · May 28, 2020, 12:44pm

While you can certainly reimplement broadcasts using anonymous procedures, I think that's overcomplicating things a bit.

donotforgetmycode_sn · May 28, 2020, 1:22pm

And sometimes it's useful to send a message to all sprites

bh · May 29, 2020, 1:35am

If you remove from the scripting area all the blocks that use the old name, then the name itself will disappear from the menu of new BROADCAST and WHEN I RECEIVE blocks that you add to the scripting area (or a Block Editor). Existing blocks in the scripting area are not changed.