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From: boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John Boswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: "set name of target" problem
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Date: 31 May 88 04:49:03 GMT
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Reply-To: boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John Boswell)
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Hi:


        I've been trying to get the "popup menus" demonstration from the
latest MacTutor to work.  Everything works fine, with the following
exception:

set editbkgnd to true
domenu "New Field"
set name of bkgnd field "New Field" to theName

	This doesn't work, since unlike "New Button", there is no default
name for a "New Field".  Thus I have to put the following line after
domenu:

set the name of the target to "New Field"

but this doesn't work as expected!!!  It seems that what is returned for
"target" is the CARD id!!!  If I do:

get the target
put it

after domenu, i get "card id 3276" or whatever in the msg box!!!
What gives???  HOW do I set the name of this bkgnd field to "New Field" so
the rest of this script will work???

	ANY help will be *greatly* appreciated!!

				Thanks,

				John Boswell
				Dept. of Chemistry
				Dartmouth College
				boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu