lingo-l hiding some globals from clearglobals

2005-06-16 Thread Cole Tierney
Hi, I'm working on a project that needs to go movie some existing_movie. The problem is that this existing_movie calls clearglobals a couple times and tromps on my global space. I could get access to existing_movie and toss a reference to gMySpecialPlist into a temp variable and restore it

Re: lingo-l hiding some globals from clearglobals

2005-06-16 Thread Duck
Thursday, June 16, 2005, 9:40:58 PM, Cole wrote: CT I think the timeOutList might be a safe place (I don't think that CT gets zapped). I was also considering an off screen MIAW to hold some CT of my props in static movie script, but I think a timeout object CT would be cleaner. How about

Re: lingo-l hiding some globals from clearglobals

2005-06-16 Thread Buzz Kettles
you could use one of the Xtras that saves Lingo objects in a file. (PropSave or the other one (whose name escapes me now)) Then you'd just have to determine WHEN to restore (optimally just after that movie clears) BUT - if they are clearing to get rid of stuff, you run the risk of returning

Re: lingo-l hiding some globals from clearglobals

2005-06-16 Thread James Newton
On 6/16/05 9:40 PM, Cole Tierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm working on a project that needs to go movie some existing_movie. The problem is that this existing_movie calls clearglobals a couple times and tromps on my global space. I could get access to existing_movie and toss a

Re: lingo-l hiding some globals from clearglobals

2005-06-16 Thread Cole Tierney
At 12:18 PM +1200 6/17/05, Sean Wilson wrote: on restoreMyStuff But isn't your restoreMyStuff handler going to have to go into the file you're navigating to? You said you didn't want to touch the code in this file, and you shouldn't have to: The the movie I'll go to will return to my movie