[asterisk-users] Asterisk as an IVR solution

[Al Baker]

Thank You - clears up a LOT I did not fully grasp

Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Friday 11 July 2008 01:05:22 Al Baker wrote:
>   
>> Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thursday 10 July 2008 19:13:50 Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>>       
>>>> It's a known problem.
>>>>
>>>> If you call Background() in a macro, then Asterisk will look for the
>>>> extensions to jump to in the CALLING Macro/context and NOT the Macro
>>>> that the Background() app was called in.
>>>>         
>>> I wouldn't call it a known problem.  It works precisely as it was
>>> designed to work.  It may not work the way that you want it to, but it
>>> works like a Macro: an independent set of instructions, with
>>> substitution, that acts as if it were invoked inline with the calling
>>> location.  That is why Background will match in the context of the
>>> calling location: it acts like it never left that original context (and,
>>> in a way, it really didn't).
>>>
>>> Subroutines are a different beast, and they are available with the Gosub/
>>> Return set of routines in app_stack.so.
>>>       
>> SO does that mean that if he used BACKGROUND is a SubRoutine  he would
>> get the "correct" or "desired" action , from his point of view? It would
>> jump to the "1" Extension in the SUBROUTINE ?
>>     
>
> Yes, if he used Background within a Gosub, it would behave the way that he
> expects.
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