A container is a place you can store a value—a number or a piece of text. Containers include:
Put 5 into it --a place for temporary results
Put "Good Morning" into the message box--Synonymns are msg, message, or message window.
Add field "New Charge" to field "Total"
Put "this text" into selection--replaces current selection.
A temporary container you name and use within the
script.*
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Containers
it
[the] message
fields
[the] selection
variable
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Introduction to HyperTalk (cont.)
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A local variable is named and used temporarily within a script. "Put 3 into TempValue", for example. A global variable retains its value across scripts. For example, "global userName".