[Laszlo-user] changing variable values... How?

[Cary Clark]

This code worked fine running OL 4.0.10 on Windoze XP.  I think the OL 
folks will caution you to qualify your method calls with the instance 
variable, even if it's "this".

Alexander Wallace wrote:
> Hi all.. this is a really stupid question, but I can't find out why it 
> doesn't work... I'll type some pseudo code here:
>
> <canvas>
>     <attribute name="someAttr" type="boolean" value="false" />
>     <method name="init">
>         super.init();
>         Debug.write("someAttr value before an attempt to change", 
> getAttribute("someAttr"));
>         setAttribute("someAttr", true);
>         Debug.write("someAttr value after attempt to change", 
> getAttribute("someAttr"));
>     </method>
> </canvas>
>
> Well... No matter what combination of accessing the var I've tried, i 
> can't change the original value... What am i doing wrong?
>
> Thanks!
>