Want nested design-time constant definitions

[HayoOellrich]

Hi !

When using design-time constants, then there is often the need to store parts of constants on its own. I do not want to enter the same data more than once, because this could cause errors.

Lets look at a simple sample:

I store filename and its path in 2 constants:

#filename_nopath# = "data.txt"
#netdirectory# = "\\nt0002\publicshare"

Now I also may need the complete filename, so it would be nice to have:

#file# = #netdirectory# \#filename_nopath#

Currently, such constructs are not supported (in 6.0.1.0).

Hayo

[Lorne]

Re: Want nested design-time constant definitions

Yep. That was done to prevent nasty, nasty circular references from being possible.

I've wanted to do the same thing myself from time to time [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] but...there are two workarounds:

<ol type="1">[*]just use the two original constants everywhere[*]use a variable instead (i.e. %file% instead of #file#)[/list=a]