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From: marc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Marc Moens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: behaviour of "it"
Message-ID: <1867@scott.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Sep 90 15:31:27 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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(This is 1.2.5)
I have two stacks, one called Publications, the other called
Abstracts.  Each card in the Publications stack has brief details of a
single techreport; the card has the name of that techreport -- e.g.
r22a.  Each card in the Abstracts stack has more detailed information
about a single techreport, also on a single card; the card has the
name of that techreport -- e.g. r22a.

I wanted to create a button on the Publications cards that would take
you to the appropriate card (i.e. the card of the same name) in the
Abstracts stack. I tried the following:

	get the name of this card
	go to it in stack "abstracts"

Getting the name of the card sets `it' to, for example, 'card "r22a"'.
I was then hoping the second line would get instantiated to

	go to card "r22a" in stack "abstracts"

But that doesn't seem to be the case. I don't get an error message; 
nothing at all happens.

I discovered I can get round the problem by doing something like

	get the name of this card
	go to stack "abstracts"
	go to it

This works, but doesn't seem to be very clean. Am I missing something?


An absolute beginner

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