OpenEuphoria

Re: Best Practices Issue

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Feb 08, 2003
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C.K.,

You could set a timer to check the variables?  But I'd check first to be
*sure* there's no event you could trap.

Dan Moyer

----- Original Message -----
From: "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Best Practices Issue


>
> > I will typically use the value directly from the control if I only need
> > to reference the value 1 or 2 times top.
> >
> > If I need to reference the value in another routine (maybe with a global
> > variable) or need to reference the value more than 2 times within a
> > function I'll assign to a variable.  This reduces clutter, makes the
> > code easier to read and also allows me to ? the value of the variable in
> > debug.  It also helps with performance as you're not having to call
> > getText() multiple times.
>
> Hey, Jonas, thanks for the response. Here's a follow-up for you (and
anybody
> else who wants to chime in): what do you do if a value changes in your
> variable, but not as a result of the control itself? For example, let's
say
> we have txt_Total (a text box that is uneditable by the user and whose
value
> is equal to the sum of four other text boxes). Let's say you've decided to
> use variables to track your control values (or rather, control values are
> determined by certain variables). When do you check for and update the
> control value? Basically, how do you update control values based on
> variables that have no onChange() event?
>
>
>
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