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From: bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu (Bruce Carter)
Subject: Re: An easy HyperTalk question
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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1991 22:33:09 GMT

In article <1991Jun3.165716.17483@spectra.com> scott@spectra.com (Tim Scott)
writes:
>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
>
I think you may have run into a limitation of the interpreter/compiler in
HyperCard.  Try using a "do" construction on your last line and you should be
able to get it to work.  Something along the lines of:

put "get field 1 of" && thisCard into myCommand
do myCommand

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