TestComplete different tabs not accessing information within each other in same script

Question

So I have a function that looks like this, and ultimately I'm trying to store the button's location information in a different tab inside the same script as the tab the function is in. So for instance in one tab, let's call it GeneralTab, I have all my operations I want to do declared. This is what it looks like.

function MyFunction
{
    ThePage.Button.click();
}

Pretty simple so far. What I am trying to do is store its location in a different tab within the script. Let's call this tab LocationTab. LocationTab looks like this:

var page = LaunchInternetExplorer(url);

function MyPage()
{
    this.Button = page.SomeLocation;
}

ThePage = new MyPage();

Here is what is intresting, when I run MyFunction inside of the same tab this works fine. That would look like the following:

var page = LaunchInternetExplorer(url);

function MyPage()
{
    this.Button = page.SomeLocation;
}

ThePage = new MyPage();

function MyFunction
{
    ThePage.Button.click();
}

But if I try to have them be two different tabs in the same script, I get an error when I try and run MyFunction(). It says

"ThePage is undefined".

What is going on here.

Answer 1

You need to add //USEUNIT LocationTab at the top of your GeneralTab script. Check the docs for details: Calling Routines and Variables Declared in Another Unit.