Dimming a variable with subscripts

[AustrianOak]

How do I Dim a variable like this:

Dim $font[2] = "20"

The reason I want to pre-define this variable is because if for some reason it doesn't get set in _ChooseFont() I want it already defined a default value.

When I do the above code I get an error saying "Missing subscript dimensions in Dim statement"

Can someone please help?

Edited July 28, 2008 by nowagain

[Dampe]

You need to declare the variable as an Array first

Example:

Local $font[10]
Local $font[2] = "20"

[martin]

How do I Dim a variable like this:

$font[2] = "20"

The reason I want to pre-define this variable is because if for some reason it doesn't get set in _ChooseFont() I want it already defined a default value.

When I do the above code I get an error saying "Missing subscript dimensions in Dim statement"

Can someone please help?

The error message doesn't correspond to the line you posted which is not a dim statement. If you want a certain value in _ChooseFont which differs from a default then you have to specify it as one of the parameters. Look up Dim in the help.

[martin]

You need to declare the variable as an Array first

Example:

Local $font[10]
Local $font[2] = "20"

No.

Try running that.

[AustrianOak]

If you want a certain value in _ChooseFont which differs from a default then you have to specify it as one of the parameters.

Yes, but what you must understand is that in my code _ChooseFont() is in a Case statement so the user my not even open it up to pick one so I'll have to declare it somehow.

This line of code

Local $font_attr[10]
Local $font_attr[2] = "9"

Gives me this error: Missing subscript dimensions in "Dim" statement

Edited July 28, 2008 by nowagain

[Richard Robertson]

First of all, when you try

Local $font_attr[2] = "9"

or any of the other pieces of code that you built in that fashion, you are declaring an array and then overwriting the array with a string. It's not an array anymore. Well, technically there's an array somewhere in the internal workings, but it's not a variant array exposed to the script.

[martin]

First of all, when you try

Local $font_attr[2] = "9"

or any of the other pieces of code that you built in that fashion, you are declaring an array and then overwriting the array with a string. It's not an array anymore. Well, technically there's an array somewhere in the internal workings, but it's not a variant array exposed to the script.

Quite.

You first declare the array and then it is created ready for values to be set in the elements as needed

Dim $font[20];create an an array with 20 elements

OR

Global $font[20]

OR

Local $font[20]

Once it has been declared you can set an element, but don't declare it again with different dimensions.

$fon[2] = "9" ;if it should be a string

$font[2] = 9 if it should be a number

If you want to declare an array and set the initial values at the same time then

Dim $aSomething[5] = [1,2,"abc",0,89];sets $aSomething[0] = 1, $aSomething[1] = 2..

It's all in the help!!

[FreeFry]

You're Dimensioning it the wrong way.

Should(could) be:

Dim $font[2] = ["20"]

You need to initialize the array like that if you want it to have values by default.

This does the same thing, but perhaps is a little more understandable for a beginner.

Dim $font[2]
$font[0] = "20"

As so, if you'd like to set the second element in the array to some value:

Dim $font[2] = ["20", "123"]

or in the more understandable way:

Dim $font[2]
$font[0] = "20"
$font[1] = "123"

Hope it makes sense.