Weirdness with global variable declaration

[Thomas J McGrath III]

In the script:

--

global gmyone, gmytwo, gmythree

on openCard
	do something
end openCard

on preOpencard
     do something else
end preOpencard

--

tom

On Jan 19, 2004, at 1:37 AM, Doug Lerner wrote:

> 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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Thomas J McGrath III	• 2003 •	3mcgrath at adelphia.net
220 Drake Road, Bethel Park, PA 15102