Dynamic variable creation

[Jordy]

Just a general question is LiveCode capable of creating global variables on the fly.

Simple example
A game you have turns, as players take turns you add 1 to a global gTurnNumber

Could you get gTurnNumber and get LC to create a new global while program running that gTurnWinner1, gTurnWinner2,
gTurnWinner3 that are created as game progresses?

[Klaus]

Hi Jordy,

this is possible, but not really straightforward and probably not worth the effort!
Use a (global) ARRAY instead:
...
## Then you can do something like this:
add 1 to myGlobalGameArray["player1"]["turn"]
...
Get the picture?


Best

Klaus

[dunbarx]

I have so much fun.

What Klaus means is that you would have to take a few minutes and examine the following handler in a button:

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on mouseUp
   repeat with y = 1 to 3
      do "put" && y && "into newGlobal" & y
      put newGlobal & y & comma after header
   end repeat
 
   put "global" && header into globalHeader
   
   set the newGlobalScript of  me to globalHeader & return & return & the script of me
   answer the newGlobalScript of  me 
end mouseUp

LC can, er, "do" anything, but what I just did is old-fashioned.

Craig Newman