OpenEuphoria

Re: Best Practices Issue

• Posted by gertie at visionsix.com Feb 08, 2003
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On 7 Feb 2003, at 18:21, Dan Moyer wrote:

> 
> 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.

In mirc, i trap /msg and /set 

In this way, and with mirc's ability to know the names of the vars (see the Eu 
associated lists in the Eu archives), i can know what the code sent to 
channels or people, and decide what to do to other vars when any one var is 
set. I pulled off some programming tricks that stunned Khaled (i know this 
because he asked me how i did it, because it alledgedly wasn't possible). 
That was without disclosing any self-modifying scripts. I know people will 
reject this suggestion again, but haveing mirc and Eu features in one 
language would be dynamite. I can keep on doing things like that in mirc tho, 
and use Eu only when hitting a mirc shortcoming.

Kat

> 
> Dan Moyer
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:29 AM
> 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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