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From: bose@milton.u.washington.edu (Rob Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HC 1.2.5 Bug or Me ?
Message-ID: <7068@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 5 Sep 90 02:35:02 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1990Aug29.215956.17538@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sharkey@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
>on mouseUp
>  get ( card field "text" )
>  put " " into card field "text"
>  put it into card field "test"
>  put it into card field "text"
>end mouseUp

Why don't you use card field ID instead of their name?  It faster and more reliable.  I think you might type a wrong name or the field "test" is a background
field. 

Why do you need () for card field "text"?

  get cd fld id xx   should be good enough

  -From one of the Insanes.