>>>>>Why (just curious)?
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>>>>You have just one global object and access its properties rather than creating public variables for most used things.
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>>>So anywhere you use it you use _application.MAXRXS rather than MAXRXS.
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>>>It may be more OOP but it doesn't seem to make much difference (except a longer variable reference) to me..?
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>>What would you do if you need several global variables? Create each of them as a public var?
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>Generally that is what I do. I preface the names with g so I know they are global.
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>Rather than ..
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>_application.addproperty("MAXRXS") (one command per property)
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>I use
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>public giMAXRXS (and can declare several variables in one command)
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>public variables have global scope. _application properties have application scope.
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>I'm lazy - I like less typing. The OOP way is elegant but not necessarily better IMO.

Did you read my message#1194892? In my class I use this_access to "automate" the addproperty process, it's really slick. Once the object is global, so are all the properties you add by simply assigning them.