OpenEuphoria

Re: Best Practices Issue

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

Thinking about Kat's observation, maybe you could create an "invisible"
(off-screen?) check-box control, and *change* that whenever your variable
changes; then you could use an "onChange" event trap for the check-box to
re-set the text to what the variable has?

Dan Moyer

----- Original Message -----
From: <gertie at visionsix.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Best Practices Issue


>
> 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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