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From:Robert A. Sisk
Date:16 Jul 2001 at 21:37:49
Subject:Re: Final question

On 16-Jul-01 taoberly@mindspring.com <taoberly@mindspring.com> wrote:

> I have a final question for everybody. Is there a way to reuse the j
> variable in this loop when calling a Workbench function, and if not,
> why? j received the length of the first icon name, but is never
> updated in later iterations:

> /* Icon test */

> ADDRESS WORKBENCH

> GETATTR window.icons.all.count NAME root VAR last_icon
> GETATTR window.icons.all NAME root STEM icon

> DO i = 0 to last_icon-1

drop j /* add this line */

> GETATTR application.font.icon.size NAME '"'icon.i.name'"' VAR j
> SAY icon.i.name" text is "j" pixels long"
> END

Evidently the command that sets j does so only when j is unassigned.

Kind regards,



Bob
Robert A. Sisk
RSisk@World.STD.Com

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