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From: Athos@cup.portal.com (Richard Eames)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: The card that would not die!
Message-ID: <3407@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 89 18:11:10 GMT
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References:<113@citycs.UUCP> <9719@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <2665NUAPPLE@NDSUVM1>

In article <2665NUAPPLE@NDSUVM1> NUAPPLE@NDSUVM1.BITNET (M. G. Stinnett) 
writes:
> on openCard
>    global name,class
>    ask "What is your name?" with "Type your name here"
>    ask "What class?" with "Type your class name or number here"
>    go next
> end openCard
> 
> Of course, when you hit the card, it would ask both questions, the go
> next.  Useless because tho it asked the questions, it did nothing with
> the answers.
> 
> But the worst thing was that I couldn't get at the script to change it.
> No matter which way I went at it, sending messages, trying to trap the
> openCard message, sending messages to the card telling it to delete
> itself, it would always pop the two dialogs, go next, and then execute
> the message.  Fortunately, I was working on a copy of the stack, so all
> the damage I did to the other cards didn't matter.

You could do this in the message box:  "Edit the script of cd " 
.  That works fine and allows you to change the script without actually 
going to the card...

-Rick


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