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Defining Xdialog Variables

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    Defining Xdialog Variables

    Using action scripting, how can you make a predefined global variable part of the xdialog variables so you can change it?
    Or do you have to define a new variable and then assign to the global variable in xbasic?

    Thanks
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    RE: Defining Xdialog Variables

    Just use the same name and define it as global.

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      RE: Defining Xdialog Variables

      the global variables (dates) are defined in an autoexec script. I created a test xdialog box and entered the gv's in the variable portion of the xdialog and the dates were not changed in the global variables after running the xdialog function. When creating the xdialog it only asks for a variable name. I see no way to make it global or how to tie into the gv's that I already have. Am I missing something???

      Thanks

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        RE: Defining Xdialog Variables

        Hello Phil,

        I'm certainly not an Xdialog expert, but I also don't see a way to do this via action scripting. However it is a very simple task to go ahead and create the Xdialog via action scripting, then convert the action script to an Xbasic script. Alpha dims the variables as shared in the first part of the script. Just change the dimensioning from shared to Global for the variables in question. Really that should be it.

        Good luck,
        Jim

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          RE: Defining Xdialog Variables

          Jim, your approach is my alternative. You should be able to do it in action scripting by placing the next action script after the xdialog box as xbasic and then assign the already defined global variables to the values from the xdialog box as you were doing in your explanation.

          If I don't have to use the xbasic that is that much code I don't have to worry about and since you can make ALL the xdialog variables global, then why not be able to put the already defined variables in the list. Does that make sense?

          Thanks

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            RE: Defining Xdialog Variables

            Previously defined global variables can be used in the xdialog. On a previous test I stated that the variable was not changing....well... I forgot to refresh the form. Looking good now...

            Thanks for all the help

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              RE: Defining Xdialog Variables

              When building an XDialog in action scripting, you can set the scope of the variables in the 3rd window - where it prompts for the name of the result variable (varC_result by default) and, below that, the scope of all variables prompted for by that XDialog.

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