How to... get local fox variable into WAD

Hi guys,
we have a (technical) weird requirement to fullfill. There is a parameter (a string) we need to update several times when running our web templates. We have this parameter in our fox coding and it needs to be updated i.e. when loading the templates the first time, when buttons are triggered etc (if we use a customer exit we can not update the parameter when i.e. a button is triggered).
What do we need this parameter for? We have to display it in a text field in our templates (it must not be a text field but it has to be present all the time in these about 70 templates). However if we use a text field the best would be to link the parameter using a variable. Anyway I do not know how to set a global variable within fox coding...
What do you suggest? How can a global variable be set using fox the easiest way? Or is there any other way to display a local fox variable in WAD (using javascript or something else)?
Any helpful ideas or answers will be <removed by moderator>.
Thks & Brgds,
Marcel
Edited by: Siegfried Szameitat on Dec 3, 2008 3:04 PM

Your requirement didn't get very clear to me but maybe you can explore whether you can achieve it by calling an FM from inside the fox code.

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    String fileNM = "arrayprint_" + arrayname +".txt";
    FileWriter printme = new FileWriter(fileNM);
    String newline = System.getProperty("line.separator");
        String tab = "\t";
    for (int i = 0; i<printstuff.length; i++)
        printme.write(i + tab + printstuff[i] + newline);
    printme.close();
    } // end printarray

Let me try to put this in different words and see if I convince you...
I think you are getting confused between variable names that you use refer a variable within your class and "names" that you associate with a variable based on the data it holds.... In your example
String[] myArray;here 'myArray' is the name of the reference to the variable printstuff[]. When you call the method
printarray(myArray) a copy of this reference is passed to that method.
But you also want to pass another variable that represents the description of the array (which you are referring to as the name). In this case one of the ways of doing this what you had pointed out which is
printarray(myArray, "myArray");If you don't like this and think its inefficient you should do a bit of reading on the basics of what a variable is, what a reference to a variable etc. Alternativel you can define your own class that convinces you like
public class MyArray
      private String[] myArray;
      private String myArrayName;
      public MyArray(String myArrayName, String[] myArray)
                  this.myArrayName= myArrayName;
                  this.myArray = myArray;
      public String[] getArray()
                return myArray;
      public String getName()
                  return myArrayName;
}Edited by: deepak_1your.com on 17-Apr-2008 14:12

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