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From: beloin@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Ron Beloin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Copying contents of stacks
Message-ID: <4003@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 88 16:00:51 GMT
References: <1080@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: beloin@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Ron Beloin)
Organization: Ecosystems Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Lines: 27
Keywords: copy, stacks, fields, script

In article <1080@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> ns@CAT.CMU.EDU (Nicholas Spies) writes:
>  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"


now, the new card is card number 2, since you started on card 1...

>  end if
> 
>  go card i 
this takes you to the last card, not the new one...

and this overwrites previous data...
So it had nothing to do with compacting the stack. I couldn't see what
was wrong until I played with it a bit. You can skip the if statement
above and just make a new card and stuff away..

ron
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