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From: science@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Zimmermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: problem with openStack handler
Message-ID: <4947@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 14 Dec 90 16:51:14 GMT
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Organization: David Taylor Research Center
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I have a weird problem that may be related to the one that started
this thread:  under HC2.0, when I launch some stacks from the Finder
by double-clicking, the system beeps at me and fails to execute the
openStack handler that I have in the stack; when I first have opened
HyperCard itself, or have been using some other stacks, and then open
the ones in question, there is no problem.

The weirdest aspect of this is that the problem occurs only on Mac IIs
at the office, not on a IIcx or a Plus at home, although I believe
they are running identical versions of HyperCard with identical Home
stacks, etc.  The problem occurs only with stacks that I have created
at home, and brought in to the office, not with stacks originally
built at the office.

Is there any way to turn on debugging or otherwise track down the
location of the problem?  It is quite frustrating to just get a beep,
and nothing more, as an error message.  Any suggestions on how to
begin to diagnose and fix such a thing?  I have looked in vain for
common themes in the failure cases, and find none (other than the
above-mentioned presence of an openStack handler, which doesn't get
executed when launching from the Finder on some Macs, not on others).
The HC2.0 application at the office and at home have the same number
of bytes and the same creation date (though different "last modified"
dates, seemingly corresponding to the date of installation on the
machines).  I'm stumped :-(....  ^z   (science@oasys.dt.navy.mil)