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From: spector@vx2.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Too Much Recursion!  Where?
Message-ID: <3150006@vx2.NYU.EDU>
Date: 5 Sep 88 04:14:00 GMT
Organization: New York University
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I keep running into a strange problem in a set of stacks I am writing, and 
maybe someone out there has seen this and tell me what I am doing wrong.

I keep running into the error message "Too much recursion".  Now, looking at my
HyperTalk scripts, I have _nothing_ that calls either 1) another script recur-
sively, or 2) another stack recursively.   What I do have are a number of
things like the following:

	Example 1:

	-- This kind of script is usually called from a button or a mouseUp
	-- in a field
	set lockscreen to true
	push card
	go to stack "SomeOtherStack"
	(get some information or do something)
	pop card
	set lockscreen to false

	Example 2:

	-- This kind is usually in the Stack's script.
	on closeStack
	global tmpList

	put empty into tmpList
	set lockscreen to true
	repeat with i = 1 to number of cards 
	 put bg field "Name" after last line of tmpList
	end repeat
	-- then do something like example #1 to store the tmpList in a real
	-- field somewhere in another stack...
	end closeStack
	

Am I seriously missing the boat here?  Why do I get the recursion errors?
Should all things that might jump around between stacks where other stack level
scripts might be called go into the backgroung handler for the particular
card background I am working with?

Any ideas, suggestions and insights would be greatly appreciated...

		Thanks,
		_DHMS
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