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From: V050FN5R%UBVMS.BITNET@CORNELLC.ccs.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: temperamental XCMD
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Date: 31 Oct 88 18:34:03 GMT
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I am working on a XCMD for a hypercard that will catalog a hard disk. I managed
to write the routines to catalog a hard disk and am trying to port it over to
HC. There seems to be a problem, though. My XCMD works occasionally. Sometimes,
I click on the button (which contains the command), and it sometimes works;it
sometimes does nothing. Often, I have engage the paint tools; go back to the
browse tool, and then my XCMD works.
There might be something wrong with the way I declared my HParamBlock pointers,
or there may be a problem with way I am accessed the the hard disk, or it may
be something else. I will appreciate any mail or note on the net about this.

Also, when I used the old Hypercard, I managed a few times to comes across a
message that said HC could not read background id #### at ####. I thought this
problem was fixed, but my XCMD seems to have brought it back. I lost two stacks
so far. I remember a few people posted about this problem before, but I did not
see an answer. Anyone have any ideas? Dan Allen are listening?