At 21:13 -0700 06/02/2002, Craig Taylor wrote:
[me]
>>Using a movie script to create a global parent script reference?
>>That's nice if you have, for instance, a large memory resident
>>database you need to get into from anywhere in your code.
>
>Currently, I have a data cast member that resides in a parent script:
>
>on mReturnList me
>return [item1, item2, etc]
>end mReturnList
>
>I then create a new instance of this script when I need to access the
>database. (Irv outlined this method in a DOUG article. Thanks Irv :-) Are
>you referring to a similar scenario and then just storing it into a global
>variable or something different?
No, that's more or less the idea I had in mind, with a few other
function calls thrown in to make the thing a more or less complete
RAM-resident mini-database program.
The difference there would be that the instance (in my scenario)
would remain permanently in a global variable and would be accessible
anyplace you needed it. Sort of like the way one instantiates an Xtra.
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