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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Using a card name/id in a variable
Keywords: field,variable,backround
Message-ID: <12607@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 30 May 90 16:03:30 GMT
References: <3015@unisoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: mxmora@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
Lines: 38

In article <3015@unisoft.UUCP> cander@unisoft.UUCP (Charles Anderson) writes:

   [stuff deleted]

>I played around with stuff in the message box and found that the
>problem has something to do with having the card id in a variable.  The
>following is a example of the problem:
>
>    put field "foo" of card id 1234    -- works
>
>    put "card id 1234" into bar
>    put field "foo" of bar   -- fails

Have you tried :

     put "card id 1234 of background id 5678" into bar


>So my question is, is there some simple, faster way to make this work without
>using my silly function?

Try using the above message. I think ids are relative to their background.




>Charles.
>{sun, ucbvax, pyramid, uunet}!unisoft!cander





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Matthew Mora
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