simple local variable question

[Phil Davis]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Mitchell" <chrism at lumin.us>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 4:55 PM
Subject: simple local variable question


> Howdy,
>
> I'm declaring some local variables at the top of a card script that I
> need to use in several handlers... here is a simplified recipe question
> that will help me understand why I'm not able to access the values I'm
> assigning to them:
>
> --card script begins here
>
> local rotAngle
> put 20 into rotAngle
>
> on mouseUp
>     answer rotAngle
> end mouseUp
>
> --
>
> My question is, why does this not put up an answer dialog with "20" in
> it? the dialog that comes up is empty.


It comes up empty because nothing can ever cause 'rotAngle' to be set. Any
executable code not inside a handler can never be executed.

Phil Davis


>
> Thanks,
> Chris