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From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: "Repeat with...." question
Message-ID: <461@stech.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 88 12:21:16 GMT
References: <8232@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
Lines: 46

in article <8232@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>, boz@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (John Boswell) says:
> 
> 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!

Sometimes you have to put a quantity into a container all of its own to use
it in a repeat statement.   Try something like:

put the number of cards of this background into NumbCards
repeat with NumbCards ...


end repeat


Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
UUCP: ihnp4!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop
BITNET: JHARRY@BENTLEY

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