About variable.

[Dan Shafer]

I don't think one ever *has to* use a global. Custom properties will, 
as far as I can tell, always do the job just fine.

But:

(a) custom properties take a bit more work to set up (longer syntax 
and/or through the inspector)
(b) put "hello" into gVariableName is shorter and therefore less 
error-prone and more efficient than set the cPropName of this stack to 
"hello"

Other than that, I can't think of any reason not to use custom 
properties exclusively.

Custom properties have some nice attributes, too. They can store 
arbitrary data and their contents can be directly edited in the 
inspector. I use custom properties to store long text strings used in 
help dialogs and other such places so I can edit them easily in place.

On Mar 31, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:

> When would you have to use a global variable, in so far as something 
> cannot be accomplished with a custom property?
>
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