Bob, Thanks for the clarification! You are right about things getting ugly. My results were very inconsistent and took a look time trying to debug to figure out what was causing the problem.
Warren On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > I believe the reason that works you the form you use did not, is because > with repeat for, the max count is evaluated as a constant, so it takes > whatever value you have in tCount and stores it in it's own internal max > count. Changing tCount does NOT alter that. > > However with Repeat While, the conditions are evaluated upon each loop, so > it works. You will find other issues with certain forms of repeat, like > repeat for each line mLine in mText. If you alter the value of mText inside > the loop, you will see strange and unexpected results in mLine, because the > engine evaluates mText as a location in memory, and altering mText can alter > in unexpected ways what is in memory. Things get really ugly after that. > > Best to not change the conditions of a repeat loop, except in the scenario > described by Colin. > > Bob > > > On Dec 3, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Warren Kuhl wrote: > > > Colin, > > > > Thanks....that would work. I didn't even think to do it this way. > > > > Have a great weekend! > > Warren > > > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Colin Holgate <co...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > >> > >> On Dec 3, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Warren Kuhl wrote: > >> > >>> But the repeat still stops at 50. Is there anyway to increase a repeat > >> loop > >>> maximum variable while within the loop? > >> > >> How about: > >> > >> put 1 into x > >> put 50 into tCount > >> repeat while x <= tCount > >> if x = 50 then > >> put 100 into tCount > >> end if > >> add 1 to x > >> end repeat > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > >> subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
