Weirdness with global variable declaration

[Doug Lerner]

I read about doing that - in a so-called "script" rather than in a
"handler". But I wasn't clear about how that works.

How do script commands get executed if they are not part of a handler?

doug

On 1/19/04 1:32 PM, "Thomas J McGrath III" <3mcgrath at adelphia.net> wrote:

> Have you tried creating the global outside of this handler?
> put it by itself before the openCard .
> 
> On Jan 18, 2004, at 9:37 PM, Doug Lerner wrote:
> 
>> In an openCard handler I have:
>> 
>> on openCard
>>   global debugMode
>>   global inChatUsers, newChatSocket
>>   global chatRect, chatRectHalf, wbRect
>>   put "8,8,596,314" into chatRect
>>   .
>>   .
>>   .
>> 
>> But a button in that card doesn't seem to know the value of chatRect.
>> And
>> while globalNames lists inChatUsers, newChatSocket and debugMode it
>> doesn't
>> list any of the three globals on the third line of the handler above.
>> 
>> Any reasons why a global should no longer be among the globalNames?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> doug
>> 
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