Weirdness with global variable declaration

[Doug Lerner]

What do you mean by "off by themselves"?

doug

On 1/19/04 2:47 PM, "Thomas J McGrath III" <3mcgrath at adelphia.net> wrote:

> just declare the globals off by themselves...
> 
> then do your on opencard.
> 
> 
> On Jan 18, 2004, at 11:40 PM, Doug Lerner wrote:
> 
>> 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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