Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.hypercard:4071 comp.sys.mac.programmer:16198
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!uw-june!moore
From: moore@cs.washington.edu (Charles Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: global variables in code resources
Keywords: global variables, code resources, XCMD's, XFCN's
Message-ID: <12642@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 90 23:16:45 GMT
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
Lines: 12

I am becoming increasingly frustrated by the prohibition against
global variables in code resources.  Is there any way around this?

One possibility for me, since I am writing a HyperCard XFCN is to make
callbacks to HyperCard and use HyperCard globals.  I'd like to avoid
this, though, since I assume callbacks to HyperCard will generally be
slow.  Also, it seems inelegant since I won't need this information
anymore when my XFCN completes.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

Charles Moore