[asterisk-users] Asterisk as an IVR solution

[Tilghman Lesher]

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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Tilghman