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From: lhe@sics.se (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard refuses to send "on openCard" message (is it a Bug ?)
Keywords: openCard message Bug
Message-ID: <1989Oct23.082748.25541@sics.se>
Date: 23 Oct 89 08:27:48 GMT
References: <1343@gmdzi.UUCP>
Sender: lhe@sics.se (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
Reply-To: lhe@sics.se (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Stockholm (Kista), Sweden
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In-Reply-To: roh@gmdzi.UUCP (Peter Rohleder )

In article <1343@gmdzi.UUCP>, roh@gmdzi (Peter Rohleder ) writes:
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>
>I neither know if following problem is a HyperCard bug nor if it ever
>has been discussed in this newsgropup(I'm working with HyperCard 1.2.2).
>
>If you have a card in your stack with has a message handler "on openCard"
>I would think that this message will be send always when the card is opened.
>
>Did you ever try to delete another card in the stack so that automatically
>the previouse card which has the message handler "on openCard" will be opened.
> [....]
>Is it a bug or is my idea about what message HyperCard has to send wrong?

As far as I can understand, this is not a bug, but a deliberate change in HC
version 1.2.

I would appreciate if someone from Apple could explain the rationale for this
change, to me is seems completely unintuitive.
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