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From: ns@CAT.CMU.EDU (Nicholas Spies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Copying contents of stacks
Message-ID: <1080@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: 9 Mar 88 20:09:42 GMT
Sender: netnews@PT.CS.CMU.EDU
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
Lines: 40
Keywords: copy, stacks, fields, script

I want to copy the contents in fields of one stack to an updated version
new stack. I used a script like the one here...

on copyStuff -- executed from a button in the source stack
  put the number of cards into numCards
  repeat with i = 1 to numCards
    go card i of stack "sourceStack"
    put field "f1" into f1contents
    -- and so on
  
  go stack "destination" -- has one card to begin with, with fields, etc
  if i > the number of cards then
    doMenu "New Card"
  end if
 
  go card i

  put f1contents into field "f1" -- fields have same names
  -- and so on

 end repeat
end copyStuff

There are almost 1100 cards in the source stack. Of course I tried it a few
times on about 20 cards  to make sure things were working as expected, and
then let it go for about an hour to copy all field contents. I compacted the
destination stack only to find that only abour 5  card's worth of stuff had
been copied, even though all the cards were created in the destination
stack.

What gives? Did I unwittingly destroy all the imported information by
compacting the destination stack? Is there something that I have to do
to make sure the imported data sticks? Considering this didn't work, is there
a "right" way to do it?

Any suggestings would be appreciated...
-- 
Nicholas Spies			ns@cat.cmu.edu.arpa
Center for Design of Educational Computing
Carnegie Mellon University