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From: rps32513@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ronald P. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: screwy
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.000402.21836@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 00:04:02 GMT
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is it me, or is HC 2.0 screwy?

I just started using it (over HC 1.2**) the other day.  I converted one of
my old HC 1.25 stacks and was modifying it when I ran into some weird
problems.  I had a bkgnd field called "result", and a script that put
stuff in it, but for some reason, the stuff wasn't being put there.
I knew the stuff was there, it just would refuse to put it in my field.
when I tried doing a 'put "hello" into bkgnd fld "result"' from the
message window, to my suprise nothing happened!  Then, I tried it on
other bkgnd fields, and it worked fine.  It only screwed up on this one
field.  I could type in it, I tried moving, resizing, re-naming it, and finally,
making a new field by the same name.. NOTHING worked.  Fields on other cards,
and the old fields on this card, were working fine.  Well, this is the REAL
weird part...  I repeatedly hit return, executing the generic put command
in the message box, and it started working!  Then, later, after some stuff
had been put in the field, I executed the command 'put empty into bkgnd fld 
"result"', it displayed what had been in the field before its present
contents, when I did my put empty again, it went backwards, displaying
what had been previously, before each 'put', in this field.  Anyways,
it seems to be working ok now, and I can't reproduce any of the above
mentioned events.  I started to seriously worry about moving any stacks
to HC 2.0..  I really don't like those type of bugs.  Anyone ever had
an experience like this?

--RS