"ERASE ALL"?

[Scott Martindale]

Hi all,

I'm kind-of embarrassed to ask this, but I'll do so anyway...

Is there a command or way of erasing all variables (regardless of type, arrayed or non-arrayed) used in a program in without having to track-down each variable used, and individually 'ERASE' them?

Effectively, I want to make the program to revert to a "just-loaded" state. Most everything I've written up until now have been "in & outers"; meaning that, the user launches the app, selects the file they want the program to process, and when it is finished, it pops-up a message box or something else that requires a user-response and exits after that. More & more, I'm needing to find a straight-forward way of when the "I'm done" requester pops-up, to (assuming the user chooses another iteration) "ERASE ALL" and start-over again.

I did numerous searches on-line & using POFFS, and either this is such no-brainer than no one else even thought it necessary to post, or I must be searching using the wrong key-words.

Thanks, and please keep the flames & chuckles to the minimum...

Scott Martindale




[This message has been edited by Scott Martindale (edited June 28, 2001).]

[Lance Edmonds]

There is no native way to do it all with just one statement - you'll need to ERASE or RESET all arrays discretely.

However, it would probably be easier to just asynchronously "start" a new instance of the the app and terminate the current one. For example:

#COMPILE EXE "MYAPP.EXE"
FUNCTION PBMAIN
  IF INSTR(COMMAND$,"/restart") then ' we are restarting
    ... handle the restart here
  END IF
  ... other code goes here
  IF condition THEN
    Dummy& = SHELL("MYAPP.EXE /restart")
    EXIT FUNCTION
  END IF
  ... and even more code
END FUNCTION

...just an idea...

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[Michael Mattias]

No need to start a new instance, or even go through an extensive manual reset of all variables.

Just make the user action a procedure using nothing but local variables.

MCM

[Scott Martindale]

Thanks guys,

Atleast it wasn't a "head-slapper"; thinking about it though, I guess it would have better for all concerned if it had been.

Once again, thanks for your time!

Scott Martindale
DNA Productions, Inc.

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Scott Martindale
Animation TD / Character Animator
DNA Productions, Inc
Dallas, Texas
[email protected]

[Eddy Van Esch]

Originally posted by Lance Edmonds:
However, it would probably be easier to just asynchronously "start" a new instance of the the app and terminate the current one. For example:
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Cool Lance! I didn't know that a program could restart itself and then terminate.
But then again, there is so much I don't know (yet) about PB..
Eddy



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