Weirdness with global variable declaration

Thomas J McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Mon Jan 19 00:47:06 EST 2004


just declare the globals off by themselves...

then do your on opencard.


On Jan 18, 2004, at 11:40 PM, Doug Lerner wrote:

> I read about doing that - in a so-called "script" rather than in a
> "handler". But I wasn't clear about how that works.
>
> How do script commands get executed if they are not part of a handler?
>
> doug
>
> On 1/19/04 1:32 PM, "Thomas J McGrath III" <3mcgrath at adelphia.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> Have you tried creating the global outside of this handler?
>> put it by itself before the openCard .
>>
>> On Jan 18, 2004, at 9:37 PM, Doug Lerner 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.
>>> And
>>> while globalNames lists inChatUsers, newChatSocket and debugMode it
>>> doesn't
>>> list any of the three globals on the third line of the handler above.
>>>
>>> Any reasons why a global should no longer be among the globalNames?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> doug
>>>
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