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From: boz@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (John Boswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: "Repeat with...." question
Message-ID: <8232@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 88 15:04:52 GMT
Reply-To: boz@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (John Boswell)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Lines: 34
Keywords: repeat, bug

Hi.  I am a little stumped, so I figured I'd ask the net...
	I wrote a nifty (I think 8-) ) stack for keeping track of my music col-
lection and one to keep track of my library.  One of the buttons in each stack 
looks at all the cards and determines which items at any particular time are
out on loan to someone.  This can be useful if I need to "recall" a book or 
cd, or whatever, or to remind someone to return something they borrowed 6 monthsago..

My problem is that the button contains the following script: (in part)

repeat with the number of cards of this bkgnd

...do the checking

end repeat

	Problem is, this doesn't work, and HC chokes on the "of this bkgnd".
For my music stack this isn't a major problem... I only have one bkgnd,
so I just took out the "of this bkgnd" part of the button script.  that works
fine.  However, I have TWO backgrounds in my library stack... taking out the 
"of this bkgnd" results in the button repeating for the number of cards in
the ENTIRE stack!  Needless to say, this results in say, a single item on
loan being "found" and reported too many times!
	I tried changing to "with this bkgnd" or "in" or etc., ad nauseum, to
no avail.  Can anybody tell me how to only repeat for the number of cards
in a single background???  Alternately, how do I determine the "number of
cards in bkgnd "X" "???

thanks for any info...

John Boswell
Department of Chemistry
Dartmouth College
Hanover, Nude Hampster  03755
Department of Chemistry
boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu