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From: ralph@world.std.com (Ralph Lombreglia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Help putting sum of field in another
Summary: You need to advance through cards upon iterations of loop.
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.132710.29068@world.std.com>
Date: 8 Jan 91 13:27:10 GMT
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From article 2867:
>repeat with i = 1 to the number of cards in bg id 2763
>add bg field "VALUE" to total

You need to tell HyperCard which card you want to work with on each
iteration.  The second line above should read:

add field "VALUE" of card i to total

("field") implies background field in HyperCard).

Ralph Lombreglia
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