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a few days ago, I added the rectangle and button classes to RapaEdit. It took surprisingly little effort. When I made the rectangle class, all I had to do was change a copy of the group class to be a single item of type rectangle. Rectangle class has no editable fields so most of the editing methods...

Before I get into the GenerateXML recursion, I realized I didn't finish my object-oriented polymorphism discussion before. If you look at the files in the Gadgets directory of the RapaEdit repository, you'll notice that all of them have equivalent functions with the same names in the namespace table...

Correct! Now you're getting it!

The real problem with your example code is that the "a" variable is global and never goes out of scope. In order to be fully nullified, all uses of the handle to the table need to be Nil, not just one of them. Variable handles are reference counted so if one is forced to Nil, that handle will go out...

Your prt variable is global so you aren't actually passing a parameter. If you stuff your parameters in a global table instead of garbage collecting them, then it will work.

Do you get an error or just disappointment that the garbage collector isn't instant?

After months away from my little HW project, I found it difficult to restart working on it: the last changes I made were disorganized and uncommented. I was feeling like I have to start again when I remembered I had uploaded to github (and bitbucket also). So I cloned it and got my last working cop...

Hello everyone! Now it's time for my demonstration of class polymorphism for Hollywood. Don't worry too much about the object-oriented terminology, I define it later in this article. In order to set all the defaults in the window table for the child classes derived from it, I make an inner table cal...

Hi Bugala! The closest you can get is either to define 2 versions of the same function using preprocessor macros that check for a constant declared on the command line or 2 versions of an additional function that can be called in the beginning or end of the debugger version of the original using the...

Great. I'll follow your github link and this thread. Thanks. You're welcome! Last time I used a form of polymorphism to invoke a different handler depending on the prefix of the ID sent to the input handler. One thing I forgot to mention was that for it to work properly, each handler has to process...