Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdragon!violet!gjditchfield
From: gjditchfield@violet.waterloo.edu (Glen Ditchfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: openCard msg before newCard?
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Date: 25 Aug 88 17:57:17 GMT
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In article <2902@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> u545731798ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (L. Greg DeMichillie) writes:
>This may have been covered before but here goes...
>
>In HyperCard 1.2, why is a openCard message generated *BEFORE* a
>newCard message when the user selects "New Card" from the menu?

I complained about this problem in the very first released version of
HyperCard.  I even sent a complaint to hyperbug, and got an acknowledgement
back.  I had hoped that it would have been fixed by now.  Is this message
ordering an accidental result of HyperCard's implementation, or did
HyperCard's implementers do it this way deliberately?

I would really, really like to have newCard arrive before openCard.
NewCard handlers are the obvious way to perform card initialization.  I
don't think changing the relative order of the messages would break many
existing stacks.