Re: newbie question: variable scope

2007-12-13 Thread Hudson Ansley
Hello, I just wanted to thank this list and Peter, David, Krzysztof and Chuck in particular for responding to my question. I am very impressed with the quick response, helpful information and respectful tone. Best Regards, Hudson

Re: newbie question: variable scope

2007-12-11 Thread Chuck Holzwarth
I have had the same problem. The following target shows how I got around the problem. Since I have to do differential builds I can't predict the number of zip files that are produced, so I check for the existence of the file before calling this target. When I need the list of files, to create th

Re: newbie question: variable scope

2007-12-11 Thread Hudson Ansley
that did the trick, thanks again! Now, what I thought might be a better solution than using "var" was to create a "filelist" and add files to this construct and then use it by ref in the upload target. I thought creating an empty "filelist" then using it's refid to add files might work, but it seem

Re: newbie question: variable scope

2007-12-11 Thread Krzysztof Kucybala
Don't know what Your ant file looks like, but I'd try to employ the antcontrib's antcallback task - it calls another target and lets it return a property (more than one actually) to the target, who made the call. Does that help? Best regards, Chris Hudson Ansley wrote: I'm trying to use the

Re: newbie question: variable scope

2007-12-11 Thread Hudson Ansley
yes, I am using thanks so much for your explanation and suggestion - sounds like a winner! Regards, Hudson On Dec 11, 2007 10:56 AM, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are most likely using or to call the other targers > this causes a new ant project to be created. porjects created in

Re: newbie question: variable scope

2007-12-11 Thread David Weintraub
When you say "upload", what do you mean? Are you using "ftp" or "scp" to move the files from your system to another system? If so, you probably would be better off using the AntContrib task or the task to determine whether or not to move these files to another system than trying to save their na

Re: newbie question: variable scope

2007-12-11 Thread Peter Reilly
You are most likely using or to call the other targers this causes a new ant project to be created. porjects created in or modified in the child projects have no effect on the properties in the main project. You can use from antcontrib to run the targets in the same project. Peter On Dec 11,

newbie question: variable scope

2007-12-11 Thread Hudson Ansley
I'm trying to use the discouraged "var" to keep track of updated files for a final upload step. It appears that when I change a variable in one target, that change is not reflected from another target. I imagine I am going about this the wrong way, so besides explaining why this might be happening,