Weirdness with global variable declaration

[Wouter]

On 19 Jan 2004, at 05:41, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:05:58 +0900
> From: Doug Lerner <doug at webcrossing.com>
> Subject: Re: Weirdness with global variable declaration
> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> On 1/19/04 12:00 PM, "Scott Rossi" <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
>
>> On 1/18/04 6:37 PM, "Doug Lerner" <doug at webcrossing.com> 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

As this are globals is there a specific reason to do this intializing
on opencard?
Why not use openstack or preopenstack?



>>> .
>>> .
>>> .
>>>
>>> But a button in that card doesn't seem to know the value of chatRect.
>>
>> Did you declare the global in the button's script?
>>
>> global chatRect
>> on mouseUp
>>  ...
>> end mouseUp
>>
>
> Yes. I think the problem is that the openCard message itself is not 
> being
> sent when this stack is cloned!
>
> Can you think of a reason that might be?
>
> Thanks,
>
> doug

Greetings,
WA