[Asterisk-Users] How do i make best use of Macro?

[Mark Spencer]

sounds like a great idea.  any takers?

On 11 Jun 2003, Steven Critchfield wrote:

> Okay, while reading over this thread it occured to me one more feature
> that should be real simple to add to app_meetme.c that would solve quite
> a bit of what is trying to be done here. The feature that needs to be
> added is a function to pass in a variable and let meetme populate it
> with the current number of users. Possibly have it be a second argument
> to the current MeetMeCount that would populate the variable and skip the
> ast_say_number function. This would allow it to be backwards compatible,
> while moving forward.
>
> How it would benefit the current question is that you could basically
> script up a fall through set of priorities that made it work
>
> exten=> x,1,MeetMeCount(1234,num)
> exten=> x,2,GotoIf   count is large
> exten=> x,3,MeetMe(1234)
> exten=> x,4,Hangup or otherwise
> exten=> x,5,MeetMeCount(1235,num)
> exten=> x,6,GotoIf
>
> Of course as you can see this is the way a Macro would come in handy
> then because there is a lot of repetition with only the MeetMe number
> changing.
>
> The diff if done to MeetMeCount shouldn't be more than 10 or so lines.
> If there is interest in it, I'll work on it this afternoon.
>
> --
> Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>
>
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