What am I doing wrong here?
Waitfor 120.0, global fitermstoedit
What am I doing wrong here?
Waitfor 120.0, global fitermstoedit
Hi Bass-O-Matic.
Your image global fitermstoedit must be in quotation marks as shown below, otherwise eggPlant will treat it as a variable. The correct code is displayed below.
Waitfor 120.0, "global fitermstoedit"
I hope this helps and thanks for using eggPlant!
Sorry, I should have been more clear. It is a variable.
set global fitermstoedit to "editmfas" -- editmfas is an image
Waitfor 120.0, global fitermstoedit -- this don't work
Click global fitermstoedit -- this works fine
You need to put the variable reference in parentheses so that it becomes an expression to be evaluated:
Waitfor 120.0, (global fitermstoedit)
BTW, if you declare a variable as global then you don’t need to use the global keyword all the time:
global fitermstoedit
put "editmfas" into fitermstoedit -- refers to the global variable
waitfor 120, fitermstoedit -- refers to the global variable
but just using the variable before declaring it as you did in your example requires that you specify the global keyword whenever you reference it. Note that this also applies when you define a handler and you want to use a previously declared global variable inside it:
global somevar
put "armadillo" into somevar
stewArmadillo
stuffArmadillo
on stewArmadillo
put "jack rabbit" into somevar -- variable local to handler
put global somevar -- outputs "armadillo"
put somevar -- outputs "jack rabbit"
end stewArmadillo
on stuffArmadillo
global somevar
put somevar -- outputs "armadillo" since somevar has been declared global
end stuffArmadillo
This is explained in even more excruciating detail in this post.