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From: bowden@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John William Bowden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: getting fields from other stacks
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Date: 27 Jul 90 15:33:35 GMT
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I need a way to "get" fields from other stacks cards without going
to the stack, i.e. I want to say -> "get cd fld x of cd a of stack b"
where x, a and b are names/numbers, unfortunately it doesn't work 
(cant understand arguments to "get"). I am presently doing it 
by going to the stack "b" and then "get cd fld x of cd a" but I hate
all the flashing of cards just to get the lousy field, not to mention
the extraneous open/closeCard and open/closeStack messages that I 
am getting in the stack which wants the fields. Just to make things 
clear, I want to do this "getting" from a script and right now the
activity of the stack is not very transparent to the user. If this 
topic has already been beaten to death I apologize (but I still need
to know.) ;^)

Please e-mail responses. If there is interest and I get any good 
solutions, I will post a summary.

			Thanks in advance,
			John Bowden
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