From a Rookie: Scope and Visibility Among Stacks/Scripts

[Klaus Major]

Hi Paul,

(thanks for forcing me to look up and thus learn a new english word: 
rookie :-)

> I am just beginning to use RR for a rapid development of a demo. It 
> seems
> like the perfect tool, and I am very impressed. Nevertheless I am 
> struggling
> with a few things and the on-line documentation, while loaded with good
> information, is a little awkward until you learn the terms for 
> whatever it
> is you are looking for. I don't have much GUI building experience and 
> my
> strongest language is Ada. (Yes, I have always worked for defense
> contractors!) BTW, in reading some of your threads I see concerns about
> fostering acceptability of what you (and I) think is a great tool - RR.
> Believe me, Ada advocates have been through (and are still going 
> through)
> the same issues. I wish us both luck!
>
> Anyway, the thing I am struggling with the most right now is 
> visibility and
> scope. In particular, I am trying to move the value from a field on a
> substack into a field on the parent stack, but the script for the 
> substack
> cannot "see" the field on the parent stack. I expect that when I 
> understand
> this topic, a lot of things will become clearer.
>
> Sorry to post such a simple question; I am sure there is a pertinent 
> section
> of documentation, but I have not identified it yet. Can someone help, 
> either
> with a simple answer or a pointer to the right place to look?

I am not sure if i understand you problems correctly, but with the 
correct
reference you can transfer anything from anywhere to anywhere else in 
RR :-)

Like:

on mouseup
   put fld "xyz" of cd "yadda" of stack "sub_yadda"\
         into fld "abc" of cd "yoda" of stack "main_yodda"
end mouseup

Hope that helps...

> Thanks,
> -Paul

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
www.major-k.de


P.S.
Scripts ARE blind, actually, therefore YOU have to guide them ;-)