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From: fwb@pollux.tmc.edu (Fred Brehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: An easy HyperTalk question
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Date: 4 Jun 91 13:56:33 GMT
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Someone@spectra.com (I lost the attribution) asks why this does not work:
>         repeat with cardNo = 1 to 10
>         put id of card cardNo of bg "Background" into thisCard
>         get field 1 of thisCard

Eric Goodman asks suggests changing it to:
>      repeat with cardNo = 1 to 10
>      put NUMBER of card cardNo of bg "Background" into thisCard
>      get field 1 of thisCard

An alternative way is:
         repeat with cardNo = 1 to 10
         put SHORT id of card cardNo of bg "Background" into thisCard
         -- SHORT might not be necessary, but I always code it this way.
         get field 1 of CARD ID thisCard

I think that accessing the card by ID is the fastest way to get to it, but
the other way will work, too.

Fred
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Frederic W. Brehm	Siemens Corporate Research	Princeton, NJ
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