Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!shelby!cis!daniel
From: daniel@dolores.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Weise)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: messages to other stacks
Message-ID: <DANIEL.90Aug27152022@dolores.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 27 Aug 90 22:20:22 GMT
Sender: news@cis.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System)
Distribution: na
Organization: Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University
Lines: 16

I've never used hypertalk before, and am trying to build what
will end up being a very large application (5000 cards).  Therefore,
I want to break it up into many different stacks.  The problem is
that I can't figure out how to send a message with parameters to
a card not in the current stack.  For example, I need to say something like
send drawcharacter left, right, top, bottom to cd "mouth" of stack "Lesson 1".
There seem to be two problems: 1)  SEND won't allow parameters and 2)
you can't send a message to a card not in the current stack.  I've hacked
up some kludges using global variables, trampolines, go cd's, and "this cd"s, 
but I want to know if maybe I'm just missing something.  I really can't
believe you can't send messages with parameters!  And that you can't
send messages!  (I've used lots of other OO langauges.)  Am I doing
something wrong or is this a well recognized problem that's fixed in
HC 2.0??

Daniel Weise