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From: scott@spectra.com (Tim Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: An easy HyperTalk question
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.165716.17483@spectra.com>
Date: 3 Jun 91 16:57:16 GMT
Sender: scott@spectra.com (Tim Scott)
Organization: Spectragraphics Corporation
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Apologies in advance if this is an idiotic question.  I haven't found
the answer in Danny Goodman's book, the HyperTalk reference or by 
trying things on the system.

Why does a construction of this form work:

	repeat with cardNo = 1 to 10
	get field 1 of card cardNo of bg "Background"

but this doesn't

	repeat with cardNo = 1 to 10
	put id of card cardNo of bg "Background" into thisCard
	get field 1 of thisCard

(the reason I want to do this is so I can use thisCard several times
during the loop.)  It seems to work if I don't include the bg 
specifier, but I need to include it since I am stuffing fields from
bg "a" into a card belonging to bg "b".

Thanks in advance!

Tim Scott
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