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From: gannholm@apple.com (Martin Gannholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: What really happens when hypercard is launched?
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Date: 19 Jul 90 00:32:06 GMT
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In article <43115@apple.Apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:
> The problem is that when Hypercard is launched, the order of messages
> is somewhat backward of what some people would expect:
> 
> openStack, openBackground, openCard, startup
> 
> Since startup usually involves a covert sortie to the home stack to
> read fields and set things, any text field that you might have
> selected will get unselected.

Due to problems like the one above, we changed the message order in 
HyperCard 2.0 to be "right", i.e. startUp, openStack, openBackground, 
openCard. We also changed a few other message sequences, but I can't 
remember offhand which ones.

On the note of losing a selection, however, you can save and restore the 
selection by doing something like this:
  put the selectedChunk into saveSelection
  --funky stuff here
  select saveSelection

Martin Gannholm
Apple Computer

Exclaimer! I typed this myself; my employer had nothing to do with it...