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From: dean@aoa.UUCP (Dean Wormell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Universal Import Button from WINDOID, Issue 3
Message-ID: <514@aoa.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 09:47:06 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  1 09:47:06 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 07:49:40 EST
References: comp.sys.mac posting of WINDOID, Issue 3
Reply-To: dean@aoa.UUCP (Dean Wormell)
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Organization: Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. USA
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Keywords: I can't make it work - Help

hypermunch, munch...

Hi, I am a novice Hypertalk hacker, so please understand if I'm missing the
obvious here...

In the last posting of WINDOID (Issue 3), there was a button script (Universal
Import Button, by Gary Bond, Rev. 2.2) for importing text and data into 
HyperCard.  I copied the script, created a new stack with standard backround
buttons (Home, etc...), created a field for imported text, and created a button
that contained the copy of the import script.

The first thing I noticed was that all the answer commands required the 
insertion of quotation marks, which I added.  Then, when running the script,
it would not get past the line:

	answer "Import text file as:" with "Data" or "Text" or "Cancel"

Upon pressing any of the three buttons, I would get an error message stating

	"Can't understand what comes after="

or something similar to that.

I searched for an =, and found one in a repeat command.  Replacing the = with
of did not help.

The funny thing is that in other script error messages, (I've seen a few :-)),
when you press the goto script button, you exit to the error in the script.
With this error, you exit to the first line in the script (on mouseUp).

Do I need to put some other scripts in the background or card to make this
work, or what? Help, please!

-- 

		Dean Wormell

			...!{harvard,ima}!bbn!aohow, de