<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Well I can tell you that it makes a difficult programming environment, just a little more difficult. It means I can't implement a menu as a single reusable piece of code inside a macro. <br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Tilghman Lesher <tilghman@mail.jeffandtilghman.com><br>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com><br>Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:07:36 PM<br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk as an IVR solution<br><br>
On Thursday 10 July 2008 19:13:50 Douglas Garstang wrote:<br>> It's a known problem.<br>><br>> If you call Background() in a macro, then Asterisk will look for the<br>> extensions to jump to in the CALLING Macro/context and NOT the Macro that<br>> the Background() app was called in.<br><br>I wouldn't call it a known problem. It works precisely as it was designed to<br>work. It may not work the way that you want it to, but it works like a Macro:<br>an independent set of instructions, with substitution, that acts as if it were<br>invoked inline with the calling location. That is why Background will match<br>in the context of the calling location: it acts like it never left that<br>original context (and, in a way, it really didn't).<br><br>Subroutines are a different beast, and they are available with the Gosub/<br>Return set of routines in <a target="_blank" href="http://app_stack.so">app_stack.so</a>.<br><br>--
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