https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=21359cbc-50ba-4292-bf22-ea3b3386362d DisplayFusion RSS: BFS.DisplayFusion.RunFunction taking/returning extra data Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:06:05 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=21359cbc-50ba-4292-bf22-ea3b3386362d https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/bfsdisplayfusionrunfunction-takingreturning-extra-data/?ID=21359cbc-50ba-4292-bf22-ea3b3386362d#4 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:50:25 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/bfsdisplayfusionrunfunction-takingreturning-extra-data/?ID=21359cbc-50ba-4292-bf22-ea3b3386362d#4 DisplayFusion We've just released a new DisplayFusion beta version (https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta/) and there are now two new scripting functions:

RunFunctionAndWait
RunFunctionAndWaitWithWindowHandle

Thanks! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/bfsdisplayfusionrunfunction-takingreturning-extra-data/?ID=21359cbc-50ba-4292-bf22-ea3b3386362d#3 Tue, 31 Jul 2018 18:42:27 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/bfsdisplayfusionrunfunction-takingreturning-extra-data/?ID=21359cbc-50ba-4292-bf22-ea3b3386362d#3 DisplayFusion Thanks for the feedback! I'll pass these suggestions along to the devs and see if they can put them in. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/bfsdisplayfusionrunfunction-takingreturning-extra-data/?ID=21359cbc-50ba-4292-bf22-ea3b3386362d#2 Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:25:55 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/bfsdisplayfusionrunfunction-takingreturning-extra-data/?ID=21359cbc-50ba-4292-bf22-ea3b3386362d#2 DisplayFusion Ok after struggling some time to do it using temporary files,
I found out that I can pass variables amongst scripted functions (nice to build sub-functions bricks)
using the https://www.displayfusion.com/ScriptedFunctions/Help/#bfs_scriptsettings

This should definitly be described in the
https://www.displayfusion.com/ScriptedFunctions/Help/#bfs_displayfusion_runfunction
section of online help.

By the way I discovered during my tests that the RunFunction is not synchronous but asynchronous!
(Because offre this my main function was reading the variable I was setting in my sub function before the sub function was setting it...)

This is quite error-prone and should be indicated with a big warning in the RunFunction (and probably RunFunctionWithWindowHandle) online help

=> I had to use another variable as a flag to indicate the sub-function completion and have the main function loop until the sub-function flag is set to synchronyze both functions : I think a synchronous RunFunction-like function should be useful if added to the current function list. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/bfsdisplayfusionrunfunction-takingreturning-extra-data/?ID=21359cbc-50ba-4292-bf22-ea3b3386362d Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:47:13 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/bfsdisplayfusionrunfunction-takingreturning-extra-data/?ID=21359cbc-50ba-4292-bf22-ea3b3386362d DisplayFusion Hello,
Would it be possible to improve or add another RunFunction so that extra variables could be passed in as arguments or returned as arguments?
That would be useful when calling another scripted function.

Best Regards,
Manuel Rozier de Linage ]]>