Globals Question (was Menu Popup)

[WaltBrown]

Thanks Mark for the comment on globals. I just tested and see that once declared, the globals and their contents persist as long as the LC session is open, even if all other stacks are closed. I closed everything but LC, built a new stack from scratch with a global of the same name, and it had the previous contents.

Which leads to a question - is there a way to make a global of stack (or stack and substack) scope? Are user defined properties the only way?

Thanks, Walt

[Mark]

Hi Walt,

Custom properties are a really convenient way to make data available to all scripts without messing with globals. Additionally, you can define local variables instead of global variables. Local variables (declared outside a handler) are available to that particular script only.

Best,

Mark

[WaltBrown]

Thanks.

[WaltBrown]

Hi Emma!

Global variables are global throughout any stacks open in a session. I was asking if there was a way to make a variable global only to the stack - there's not, I am going to use custom properties instead. That way I can use the same name in scripts used in multiple stacks and they will not have shared contents.

[Mark]

Walt,

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[WaltBrown]

Thanks, Mark, that occurred to me belatedly.