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From: ralph@world.std.com (Ralph Lombreglia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Gatekeeper vs. HC2.0; strangeness in Address/Appointment stacks
Summary: "go stack [stackname]" takes you to first card
Message-ID: <1991Jan5.145458.12869@world.std.com>
Date: 5 Jan 91 14:54:58 GMT
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Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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From article #2835:

>when you click on the button to jump to the other stack, that other
>stack flips back to the first card of its main background

The script of those buttons says "go stack [addresses or
appointments]" and this HyperTalk command takes one to the first card
of the destination stack.  You should either physically click on the
window of the stack you want, or cycle through the open stack windows
with the "Next Window" item of the Go menu (Command-L), or you should
install a "Stacks" menu in your menubar, but you'll need the "Power
Tools" stack to do that.  "Next Window" is your best bet, especially
on a 9-inch screen where the "Appointments" stack, having a
full-screen card size, wouldn't allow you to see the Addresses stack.

Of course, if you write HyperTalk, you could change the scripts of the
buttons to check whether the other stack is currently in "the stacks"
(open) and if so you could resume that stack, which would preserve the
card you were on in the suspended stack, if that's clear.  Hope it
helps.

Ralph Lombreglia
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