is evaluation order defined, and evaluation of conditionals

[Bob Sneidar]

Very good point Peter. That could be very useful to know. 

Bob


On Jun 26, 2012, at 7:17 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote:

> It's also useful if you have a general handler that needs to screen out certain types of objects, eg:
> 
> on mousemove
>   if word 1 of the target = "field" and the locktext of the target then
>      set the defaultcursor to hand
>   else
>      set the defaultcursor to empty
>   end if
> end mouseup
> 
> If the second condition were not skipped after the first one is found false, then you'd get an error message when moving over a button.
> 
> -- Peter
> 
> Peter M. Brigham
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