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Newcomers DBPro Corner / setting global variables

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Robsam
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Posted: 26th Oct 2008 20:08
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I am new to darkbasic pro, when I try to set a global for a variable I get an error message, if I delete the word global my program runs ok
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IanM
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Posted: 26th Oct 2008 20:24
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What code do you use? What error message do you get?

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Robsam
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Posted: 26th Oct 2008 22:16
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As soon as I type in the word global and press F5 to run I get the error message syntax error: unknown command. I am trying a copy of hangman from the book "Hands on darkbasic pro " the compiler will not accept the word global. Is the book wrong?
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Sixty Squares
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Posted: 26th Oct 2008 23:46 Edited at: 26th Oct 2008 23:48
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GLOBAL makes the specified variable global and is used as follows:

GLOBAL (variable name)
ex:
GLOBAL MyVariable

Or it could be used like this:

GLOBAL (variable name) AS (variable type)
ex:
GLOBAL MyVariable AS Integer

Which would make the variable only be able to hold integers no matter what it's called.

Some variable types include:
INTEGER
FLOAT
DWORD
STRING
BOOLEAN
BYTE

Plus some others I did not mention

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Robsam
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Posted: 27th Oct 2008 16:54
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I type in global word$ the compiler will not accept this, if I delete global the program runs


anymore thoughts 0n this
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Captain IceT
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Posted: 27th Oct 2008 17:04
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What version of DBPro are you using?

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Robsam
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Posted: 27th Oct 2008 17:08
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I am using dark basicpro v1.13 enhanced

the problem line is


global word$
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Zotoaster
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Posted: 27th Oct 2008 21:39
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Or use DBEdit (I think it's called). It has a nice pre-compiler that can give you globals, types, etc.

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Robsam
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Posted: 28th Oct 2008 22:52
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Thanks for the info guys that hes cleared the matter

cheers.
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