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From: american@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Jeff Iverson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Too Much Recursion
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Date: 10 Oct 89 12:05:15 GMT
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dale@ora.ora.com (Dale Dougherty) writes:
>I have a series of stacks that I distribute.  A couple of people
>who use them have reported a "Too Much Recursion" message. I have
>been unable to duplicate it running the stacks on a variety of Macs.  In other
>words, I can't track the message down to anything that's happening
>in my scripts.  Are there known HyperCard bugs that might
>cause this problem?  (In both cases, they are using 1.2.2 and my
>stacks were written using that version.)    I'd like to hear any suggestions to
>help me solve this problem.  

/l
.li
The users of your stacks may have openStack, openBackground, or openCard
handlers in their Home Stacks which are intercepting system messages from your
stacks.  For example, if someone was using a handler which upon opening a new
stack, went back to the last stack to record where they were coming from and
subsequently sent a new openstack message which would spiral them into a 'Too
Much Recursion' error message.

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