Strange hang

[Peter Haworth]

I believe what you cannot do is pass an array element by reference. So your
faddnum function cannot be declared as:

function faddnum @pnum

Not that you would want to do that in a function but you might be tempted
to make it a command defined that way.

Pete
lcSQL Software
On Jan 14, 2013 10:01 PM, "Kay C Lan" <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Robert Sneidar <slylabs13 at me.com> wrote:
> > Yeah I misunderstood. The only thing you cannot do (and there is/was a
> request to implement this) is to pass an element of an array as a parameter
> to a command or function eg. put myFunction(myArray[1]) into bobtest.
> >
> > Bob
>
> Bob,
>
> Your scaring me! This is essential in my current project, I've
> basically shotgunned my scripts with such, so if you're telling me
> it's going to break at some stage, I'm going to cry.
>
> 1) New Main Stack
> 2) Add button
> 3) Copy and Paste this script into the button's script:
>
> on mouseUp
>    put 4 into aArray[1]
>    put aArray[1] into msg
>    put fAddNum(aArray[1]) into tBobTest
>    put cr & tBobTest after msg
> end mouseUp
>
>
> FUNCTION fAddNum pNum
>    add 10 to pNum
>    return pNum
> end fAddNum
>
> Please tell me I've misunderstood and it's something else that can't be
> done.
>
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