Thank you.
The only place I did not have it was in my stack's script with the openstack handler. Duh! Mike On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:34:58 -0400, Slava Paperno wrote: >> How do you carry a global variable from one stack to a substack? > > If you set a global variable in the main stack: > > on preOpenStack > global gMyName > > put "Mike" into gMyName > end preOpenStack > > then in any card in any substack you can retrieve the value like so: > > on openCard > global gMyName > answer gMyName --you will see "Mike" > end open Card > > In other words, nothing needs to be done to "carry" a global variable from > one stack to another. All you have to do is declare it with the word > "global" in front. > > S. > >> I have this set of commands on every page of every stack in my project: on opencard --Create a global variable for the db global dbID global curUserID global UN put numtochar(39) into SQ I then proceed to login to the database (works fine normally) and then access whatever data I need. I just created a substack called CV with three pages - pgCV1, pgCV2 and pgCV3 I need the login credentials of the user to carry over so the fields on these pages can be populated with the existing data on the database. The important variable is dbID and curUserID What do I need to do, other than the global command, to make this happen? Mike > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [1] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode [2] Links: ------ [1] mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [2] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
