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From: willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Merging Stacks
Message-ID: <1276@urbana.mcd.mot.com>
Date: 7 Jun 90 14:06:03 GMT
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Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Urbana, IL
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>> I have two 'address' stacks which I'd like to merge.  Does anyone have
>> a script which will merge the stacks without creating two backgrounds?

I was under the impression, from something I read some time ago, that
doing a "Copy Card" in one stack and "Paste Card" multiple times would
result in the second stack having a bunch of separate backgrounds,
each with one card.  However, I tried it last nite and found out
otherwise.  I copied all cards in one background between stacks
essentially as follows (this from memory):

    on cpbg tgtStack,theBg
	set lockMessages to true
	set lockScreen to true
	push card
	go first card of background theBg
	repeat with i = 1 to the number of cards in background theBg
	    domenu "Copy Card"
	    push card
	    go stack tgtStack
	    go last card of background theBg
	    domenu "Paste Card"
	    pop card
	    go next card of background theBg
	end repeat
	pop card
    end cpbg

When I looked at the background information for the background
in question in the target stack, it said that the background was
shared by a bunch of cards, so I deduce that multiple backgrounds were
not created.  This seems to work even with very old versions of
HyperCard.  Am I deceived?

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