Re: problems with Text_New and Pager_Send?

[Bob Fulks <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:07 AM +0200 8/23/99, Philippe Lhermie wrote:

>I noticed that if I wanna use Text_New , I cannot start a line of code by:
>
>Text_New(Date, Time, Close, "Last Bar");
>
>I have to use a work around, otherwise the code can't be verified and I get
>the following message:
>"This word cannot start a statement"
>
>only this works for me:
>Value1 = Text_New(Date, Time, Close, "Last Bar");
>
>And it's the same with Pager_Send:
>
> Pager_Send("Philippe","TestEmail");
>gives the same error message
>
>and the following line works:
>
> Condition1 = Pager_Send("Philippe","TestEmail");
>
>Does anyone know why ?


That is the way it was designed to work. The value the function 
returns is used to identify which text item you are referring to when 
you later need to modify (change color, etc,) or delete the text item.

Bob Fulks