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From: davide@cs.qmw.ac.uk (David Edmondson)
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Subject: Re: Creating a stack via Hypertalk?
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Date: 23 Mar 90 13:49:51 GMT
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Reply-To: davide@cs.qmw.ac.uk (David Edmondson)
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>In article <53654@microsoft.UUCP> peterbak@microsoft.UUCP (Peter BAKO) writes:
>>I'm putting a stack together which needs to have a function that will
>>create a new stack with the name that is already residing in a card
>>field.  Furthermore this new stack must have the same identical
>>first four cards as the stack which created it.  If there is any way
>>for a script to paste a name into the Save a copy... dialog, then I
>>could use that, and then delete any cards which have a card number
>>greater then four.  Can anyone offer a better method?
>

I did something like this by using File Copy XCMD (written by
Chris Hyde here at QMW since I couldn't find one anywhere else)
and a File Rename XCMD which I think came off an early
Developer Stack.  I needed to create a variety of stacks so I
kept a template of each, copied and renamed the file and did
the stack specific stuff from a script, if the stuff on the
first four cards is variable then you can copy the stack you
are in (if the XCMD doesn't let you copy an active stack you
may have to go to the home stack temporarily but with a
lockscreen the user will never know). At the time the rename
XCMD was also a good way of checking to see if a stack already
existed, attempt to rename the stack to the same name and you
know it isn't there if you fail.

Dave