On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > I made a little application that has a window with a listbox and a
> > global variable that has all items of that list box.
> > The variable is initialized empty. I crated a procedure that is called
> > in the main and all it does is to load a list from an file and add it to
> > the var. and to the listbox.
> > When I start VTcl and open the project, it executes the procedure called
> > in main, and the list is shown in the list box. Ok, that's good, so I may
> > test it, but if I decide to save the project, the variable is saved with
> > it's contents, all the list is saved in the initialization for the list,
> > that had to be empty.
>
> I was going to ask about this very thing. Everytime I load my application
> into vTcl, it later gets saved with all of the current values of my
> global variables.
>
> I've had to put several "unset" commands in "main" to clear these out.
>
> It would be nice to have a preference switch that says to save the
> "widget" array for the aliases, but no other global variables.
1.09 contains a preference for not saving global vars. When will the
fabled 1.09 arrive? I'm targeting tomorrow evening (EST).
cheers,
-stewart-
