Can Standalones Do "do"?

[Roger.E.Eller at sealedair.com]

Yes, standalones can do "do". ;)

> Am I wasting my time?  Is there another way to change handlers 
on-the-fly?
Here's another way:
set the script of btn "dynamicScript" to fld "Handler"
dynamicHandler -- in the field, the handler begins with "on 
dynamicHandler"

Roger Eller
roger.e.eller at sealedair.com



On 09/22/2003 at 10:15 AM, Rob Cozens <rcozens at pon.net> wrote:
> Morning all.
> 
> I'm working away polishing up SDB for the LA Run Rev Dev meeting on 
Wednesday.
> 
> Lately I've got a nagging feeling that part of my effort is for naught:
> 
> SDB Data Dictionary includes a field where the developer can type a
> validation handler to applied to the field contents when the field is
> closed.  The idea was something like this:
> 
> on closeField
> global passedData
> put me into passedData
> do (field "Validation")
> if the result is not empty then -- take error return
> [snip]
> end closeFields
> 
> Cool and powerful stuff but if a standalone can't do "do", I'm
> wasting my time.
> 
> Am I wasting my time?  Is there another way to change handlers 
on-the-fly?
> 
> Rob Cozens
> CCW, Serendipity Software Company