Well I guess that's the point. We shouldn't be clearing globals that don'e "belong" to LC so why on earth is LC even trying to look at system globals that don;t belong to it?
Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 7:27 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > On 5/7/11 7:46 PM, Pete wrote: > >> I didn't get the error message but I'm sure the cause was the same. >> >> I'm thinking maybe this should be reported as a bug. It's puzzling why LC >> should be chasing down global variables it doesn't care about and not >> being >> prepared to deal with slashes I guess is a side effect of that. Plus >> there's lots of variables that have slashes in them. >> > > Those are system globals, and LiveCode allows you to use any of them. You > can create your own too, actually. LiveCode does not discriminate, it just > displays whatever the OS gives it. The variables will be different from one > OS and machine to another. It isn't so much that LiveCode doesn't need those > globals; LiveCode presents them in case you or your scripts want to use > them. > > It may be a bug though that LiveCode doesn't deal correctly with system > globals containing slashes. That part could be reported. > > You can clear system globals from LiveCode by simply putting empty into > them, like any other variable; i.e. "put empty into $#". You shouldn't need > to restart the IDE if you do that. But since they are system globals, > changing them may affect other apps that use them so go carefully. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
