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From: M.Howlett@lut.ac.uk (Margaret Howlett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: An easy HyperTalk question
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Date: 4 Jun 91 10:36:14 GMT
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Sorry I can't do a follow up in the proper manner.  I'm new to this news
reading and haven't found out yet how to recall articles once I've read them
and printed them off for reference!

In response to scott@spectra.com, I agree that you SHOULD be able to do 
whathis second example is attempting but, it seems, you have to trick (or
kick!)
HyperCard into doing what is required here by making a couple of slight
alterations to the commands as follows:

										put SHORT id of card cardNo of bg "Background" into thisCard
          get field 1 of CARD ID thisCard

This works! I've tried it. Why it is necessary, I don't know.
If you use "put id of card........ into thisCard", thisCard will hold
"card id <4-digit integer>" so you would think that the words "card id"
would not be necessary on the following line.
Using "put short id .......... into thisCard" puts just the 4-digit integer
into thisCard so "card id" needs to be included on the next line.  Crazy!

In response to the followup article from ericg@ucschu.ucsc.edu, surely
"NUMBER of card cardNo" IS cardNo which would make the second example a
variation of the first and, therefore, not what is wanted.

Cheers!

Margaret Howlett, Dept. Computer Studies, 
Loughborough University of Technology, UK