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Hi all!

If I clone a stack the new instance of the stack uses the same globals, right? And if I would like to have different globals in each instance of the stack?

Hi Mag,

globals are... well, globals! No way!

Maybe you can "get away" with LOCAL vars in the stack script?


Best

Klaus

If you need values specific to the stack you could use custom properties, effectively binding the data to the object.

Thank you Klaus, I will examine the possibility to implement local vars...

FourthWorld nice idea, are the custom propperties a lot slower than globals?

Mag wrote:FourthWorld nice idea, are the custom propperties a lot slower than globals?

Measurably, but rarely noticeably.

Thank you for the info guys!

And if I have two instances of the same main stack (called for example "MyStack"), each one with their substacks, when I set a custom property for the stack MyStack from within a substack, can I be sure that the property set is the one of the current mainstack?

PS
I know, not an easy question...

PS
I noticed that the substacks are not cloned with the main stack. So if I have to set a custom property of a main stack cloned from a substack, I have to know the name of it. This because the substacks continues to own by the original stack.

After executing a "create" or "clone" command, the value on the local variable"it" will contain a absolute reference to the new object.

Thank you Richard!