Weirdness with global variable declaration

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Sun Jan 18 22:00:27 EST 2004


On 1/18/04 6:37 PM, "Doug Lerner" <doug at webcrossing.com> wrote:

> In an openCard handler I have:
> 
> on openCard
> global debugMode
> global inChatUsers, newChatSocket
> global chatRect, chatRectHalf, wbRect
> put "8,8,596,314" into chatRect
> .
> .
> .
> 
> But a button in that card doesn't seem to know the value of chatRect.

Did you declare the global in the button's script?

 global chatRect
 on mouseUp
   ...
 end mouseUp

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Development & Design
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