saveGlobals

clear only some globals >There is a way to clear globals that I want to clear leaving the others >untouched? >I know that with clear globals you delete all the globals, but what I have >to do if I want some globals to stay. > >Thanks for any advice > >Teo Depends. If you have just some global variables you want to preserve in a multitude of vars you wish to get rid off, set those lucky few to local vars, clearglobals and reset the few globals afterwards, as in on clearMostoftheGlobals global gMustHave1, gReallyNeedIt2 set mustHave = gMustHave set reallyNeedIt = gReallyNeedIt clearglobals set gReallyNeedIt = reallyNeedit set gMustHave = mustHave end If on opposite, you have just some globals you want to kill or rather, reset to their default value, use a ResetVariables handler like Joshua proposed already. If both alternatives look unpractical since there are just too many single variables to treat them propper individually the key to an answer may lie in the question, whether indeed you need a bazillion of variables in order to store a bazillion of values. In a larger project a set of different property lists with different purpose and lifetime each may help. You may have variables used only in a specific situation. Instead of putting them each into globals you could put them into a property list gLpShortTermVar. You just reset that property list whenever you leave a "specific situation" and 60% of your global soup is away. You may have variables which are valid only while your in a given movie and need to be reinitialized as soon as the user changes to another movie of your project. Put them into a property list gLpThisMovieVar and reset that list before you actually 'go movie "theNext"'. etc. Now you may have reduced the number of globals from 150 to 5, but accessing the variables in those lists is a bit too verbose. If you are bored by typing all that getaprop/setaprop stufff again and again you might want to write some functions to access the data more easy, like on getAShortTermVar theVar global gLpShortTermVar if not voidP(theVar) then return getaProp(gLpShortTermVar,theVar) end on setAShortTermVar theVar,theVal global gLpShortTermVar if not voidP(theVar) then setaProp gLpShortTermVar,theVar,theVal end Other ways to save globals from being killed by clearglobals include storing them in object or script properties or in the windowlist, in the system variable version or in an alert hook object.

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