Globals from the message box

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Mon Nov 28 18:31:27 EST 2011


Ok thanks that makes sense. I have a fuzzy recollection in the past that that didn't work for me but I suspect my coding at that time was fuzzier still. 

Bob


On Nov 28, 2011, at 3:06 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 11/28/11 2:07 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> 
>> That works famously! It's only in the single line message box that
>> semicolon delimited put statements using globals always resolves to
>> true. Sounds buggy to me!
> 
> The message box has automatic access to any globals that have already been declared, so you don't need to do it again if they are already listed in the globals pane of the message box. The engine has access to all globals at all times, and the message box just passes your commands to it.
> 
> Semicolons do work in the message box to separate command lines.





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