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From: aisl@ur-tut.UUCP (Larry Landry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Are computed 'answer's possible?
Message-ID: <819@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 21:52:40 GMT
References: <2582@sfsup.UUCP>
Reply-To: aisl@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Larry Landry)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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In article <2582@sfsup.UUCP> shap@sfsup.UUCP (J.S.Shapiro) writes:
>I have a hack for which I would like to use a computed 'answer'.
>That is, I want to determine what the options given in the 'answer'
>command are by some calculations rather than by stating them
>a priori.
>
>Jon

HyperTalk allows you to generate a script in a variable and then execute
that script.  The following code will execute an answer with variable
options.

on varAnswer count, question, reply1, reply2, reply3
  -- the answer command with varible number of commands
  -- pass three replys and reduce count if you don't want all to appear
  
  -- build the command

  put "answer" && quote & question & quote into myCommand
  if count > 0 then
    put " with " & quote & reply1 & quote after myCommand
    if count > 1 then
      put " with " & quote & reply1 & quote after myCommand
      if count > 2 then
        put " with " & quote & reply1 & quote after myCommand
      end if
    end if
  end if

  do myCommand
end varAnswer

Simply modify this to your application.


Larry Landry