Your macro should look like this: \define mymacro() <$set name="result" value="Hi Bob"> <<result>> </$set> \end
<<mymacro>> You had a forward slash at the end of the <$set.../> tag. The value of the variable only "lives" between a set of tags, e.g. <$set ...></$set>. Since you didn't have a set of tags, the value ended before it was invoked. You invoked "result" as <result>. Variables set by the setwidget get invoked with <<result>>. These are different than variables passed to the macro which get invoked like $result$. It gets more confusing. If you had called <$set> before invoking the macro, then inside the macro definition you could use $(result)$, like this: \define mymacro() <$set name="result" value="Hi Bob"> <<result>> $(result)$ </$set> \end <$set name="result" value="Hi Doug"> <<mymacro>> </$set> Which results in: Hi Bob Hi Doug HTHSH (Hope this helped somehow) Mark On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 4:17:39 PM UTC-8, Dave wrote: > > I've realized on another thread that I must have a fundamental > misunderstanding of the set widget. Isn't it supposed to set a variable > for use elsewhere? > > \define mymacro() > <$set name="result" value="Hi Bob"/> > <result> > $result$ > $(result)$ > \end > > <<mymacro>> > > When I run the above macro, all I get is > > $result$ > > > I also tried it like this > <$set name="result" text="Hi Bob"/> > > but got the same results. > > I have got set widget to work in situations like this: > <$list filter="[<result>getindex[$testname$]]"> > > but not sure what the distinction is there (set variables only work inside > widgets?) > > > Anyway, is there a correct way to get it to work the way I need? or > perhaps is there an alternate widget to use? > > > (My ultimate goal is to get a result from inside one macro and transfer it > to another macro for further processing.) > > Thanks, > Dave > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/bfbe33c6-10f6-4ff3-bbd6-956e36983a03%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
