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From: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Problems converting to HC2
Message-ID: <58665@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 90 16:26:20 GMT
References: <anne.657265297@tasis>
Reply-To: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <anne.657265297@tasis> anne@tasis.eecs.utas.edu.au (Anne Zanotti) writes:
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|After converting Mews (a mail & news reader) from HC 1.2.5 to 2.0, I encountered the following error message, when using the forward arrow button (or key):
|	"Can't understand arguments to this keyword"
|So I looked at the script for the offending button :
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|	on mouseup
|		send Next to this card
|	end mouseup
|
|I tried putting quotes around 'Next', brackets around 'this card', but still the same error message.
|

This is going to be a very common problem for HC 1->2 conversions.  "Next" is
a keyword in HyperTalk, and HT 2.0 is not as lenient as HT 1.x.x about
allowing keywords to be used as names for messages and variables.  So
when you use message/variable names such as "next", "div", "me", etc. they
will probably have to be changed.

I ran into this converting an important stack for a friend.  I told him
a year ago not to use "me" as a variable name, but would he listen?  Nooo.

Hope this helps,
James Thiele -- microsoft!jamesth