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

[P T Withington]

What version are you testing against?  Your example runs fine for me  
(with deprecation warnings):

INFO @wallace.lzx#1: #canvas.getAttribute('someAttr') is deprecated.  
Use #canvas['someAttr'] instead.
someAttr value before an attempt to change false
INFO @wallace.lzx#1: #canvas.getAttribute('someAttr') is deprecated.  
Use #canvas['someAttr'] instead.
someAttr value after attempt to change true
lzx> Debug.versionInfo()
URL: http://dueling-banjos.local:8080/ringding-clean/test/wallace.lzx?lzt=object&lzt=object&debug=true&lzr=dhtml&lzbacktrace=true
Version: 4.1.x.0
Release: RingDing
Build: 8366 /Users/ptw/OpenLaszlo/ringding-clean
Date: 2008-03-24T12:59:25-0400
Target: dhtml
Runtime: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv: 
1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
lzx>

On 2008-03-24, at 14:07 EDT, 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!