Re: global is empty

2019-01-23 Thread JJS via use-livecode
i had to put the global behind global. i was a mistake i looked over. so no bug. Op 23-1-2019 om 04:51 schreef Tom Glod via use-livecode: has this been resolved? when you moved the global declaration to the top it worked? I keep an eye on reports like this because they are the most worrisome

Re: global is empty

2019-01-23 Thread JJS via use-livecode
i had to put the global behind global, not behind local. it was a mistake i looked over. so no bug. Op 23-1-2019 om 04:51 schreef Tom Glod via use-livecode: has this been resolved? when you moved the global declaration to the top it worked? I keep an eye on reports like this because they are

Re: global is empty

2019-01-22 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
has this been resolved? when you moved the global declaration to the top it worked? I keep an eye on reports like this because they are the most worrisome kinds of things. But I always trust that the programmer will find the error in their ways. On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 5:44 PM J. Landman Gay

Re: global is empty

2019-01-22 Thread JJS via use-livecode
no it should'nt you're right Jacque only i forced myself months ago to put globals at the top and this stack script was already older and i had putted locals at the top, so i misplaced and overlooked 1 global this was my fault, a global after some locals: local tThis, tThat, tAnother, tAgain

Re: global is empty

2019-01-21 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 1/21/19 12:06 PM, JJS via use-livecode wrote: Foolishly i putted this global behind the locals on the top line. And blindly trusting myself that it was correct i did not notice it. I didn't realize the order mattered. Seems like it shouldn't. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@h

Re: global is empty

2019-01-21 Thread JJS via use-livecode
Thanks Kay for your detailed way of solving such issues, i'll keep that in mind may i get a similar issue. By the way i lately use Brian's script exporter, instead of doing it manually. It works fast and great. I always (well i force myself to) declare my globals at the top of a script stac

Re: global is empty

2019-01-20 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
You said you checked every card/button, but did you also verify the stack script too? Are you defining the global at the script level or inside a particular handler? Thanks, Brian On Jan 19, 2019, 3:31 PM -0600, JJS via use-livecode , wrote: > Hi, > > > i've never had this before and i believe i

Re: global is empty

2019-01-20 Thread Kay C Lan via use-livecode
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 8:30 AM JJS via use-livecode wrote: > Because with another stack the same principe is working correct. Using > LC902. In the odd cases where I've seen this happen (not your problem, but where the same code works in one stack but not another) my fallback strategy is to: c

global is empty

2019-01-19 Thread JJS via use-livecode
Hi, i've never had this before and i believe it is a stack fault rather than an actual bug. Because with another stack the same principe is working correct. Using LC902. With  the current stack the global gLocalDbID of the next line is empty once the new card is opened. put revOpenDatab