Author Topic: Looking for the best practice for coping with the global variables problem  (Read 4051 times)

sabotrax

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Hello,
in my profile, I want to check several conditions before executing a command.
For example before speeding up a ship in Star Citizen, I have to make sure that
I'm actually in a ship and also not in chat mode.
I want put all these checks in one command/function/method I'm going to call
prior to the real command. In the subcommand I would set "BOOL:pre_check = True"
and look for the state of it later.
As I understand it, all variables in VA a global. Which could, in my case, spawn some weird
bugs as I would be changing "pre_check" all the time.

Is there a better way to do this? Like making variables local or unique to the calling routine.

Thanks,
Marcus

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Re: Looking for the best practice for coping with the global variables problem
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2017, 08:32:00 AM »
As I understand it, all variables in VA a global.

Not anymore... get the latest BETA and check manual at page 141
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Re: Looking for the best practice for coping with the global variables problem
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2017, 09:19:57 AM »
You could always name your variables different for each profile.  It's what I would do before the latest stuff.  Of course, I was doing simple stuff and not trying to build a CRM or anything like that.

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Re: Looking for the best practice for coping with the global variables problem
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2017, 06:56:48 AM »
Thanks for answering.
Is there an URL for the latest beta documentation?

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Re: Looking for the best practice for coping with the global variables problem
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2017, 07:28:51 AM »
Thanks for answering.
Is there an URL for the latest beta documentation?

A direct link, I think not... the PDF is include the installer, however
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