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From: john@felix.UUCP (John Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: "Repeat with...." question
Message-ID: <23775@felix.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 88 00:44:25 GMT
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>> 
>> 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
>> 
>
>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
>


Several folks have pointed out that "the number of cards in this background"
may not be supported yet.  I have not confirmed this, and it may very well
be true.  However, there is a more basic problem in the original example
not yet mentioned:

The "repeat with..." is to be used with a varible counter the same way
a for loop is traditionally used.  It might help to change the repeat loop
to:

  repeat for <value>

  end repeat

to see if this produces the desired results.

John Gilbert
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John Gilbert
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