Changes to Msg Path from LC 7 to 8?

Tom Glod tom at makeshyft.com
Thu Jun 8 17:45:42 EDT 2017


glad u worked it out Tom

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 5:22 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> There's a spoil-sport in every crowd. :P
>
>
> On 6/8/17 4:19 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
>
>> tExt is all I'll say ;) (thanks to Ken Ray for that one)
>>
>> Warmest Regards,
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 8 Jun 2017, at 22:07, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 6/8/17 3:19 PM, tbodine via use-livecode wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the encouragement, Richard. Looks like I'll be doing the
>>>> "Humility
>>>> Workout" for quite some time.
>>>> For future list searchers who might have this same symptom, I found the
>>>> cause: One of my stack level scripts used "theme" as a parameter name,
>>>> but
>>>> apparently that's a reserved term that is strictly enforced in LC 8.
>>>> Changing that allowed all my stack scripts to run normally.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's the main reason I preface all variables with a letter, usually
>>> "t" for handler-local variables, "g" for globals, "s" for script-locals,
>>> and "k" for constants. You don't have to use the same letters but those
>>> have pretty much become the standards (some people prefer "c" for
>>> constants, but I use that for custom properties.)
>>>
>>> If you adopt a system like this, you'll never have a naming conflict.
>>>
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