Best Practices using globals vs. custprops?
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Jun 22 14:10:06 EDT 2007
Stephen Barncard wrote:
> Speaking of persistence, has anyone been using the "Variable
> preservation by default" feature in Preferences-->Script Editor-->
> that showed up a few version ago?
>
> How would this be used, and does anybody actually turn this on?
>
> the tooltip says
>
> "Preserve script-local variables are declared and literals quoted
> when applying a script."
>
> what?
In that context "persistence" only applies to the current session;
unlike custom props, which are physically stored in the object record,
the values of script-local vars are lost on quit.
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Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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