Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Ilan
From: Ilan@cup.portal.com (ilan - rabinowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Can a HyperTalk FUNCTION be global ?
Message-ID: <10871@cup.portal.com>
Date: 4 Nov 88 07:51:08 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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I would like to define a HyperTalk function in any Stack
and be able to access it by its name from any background,
button, or card, and as many times as I need to.

Is there a way to create this type of a "global" function
if the current HyperTalk language does NOT support it ?

I do NOT want to create an XCMD or an XFCN.                          

By the way, as documented in Danny Goodman's book
I should be able to call a function globally from anywhere
if the function is in the Home Stack.  I managed to make
that work.  But if I try the same thing in another stack
(other than the home stack) the function placed in the
stack script is never found by the button script or
card script calling it. (I used the factorial example
in Danny's book.)


  - Ilan Rabinowitz -
  Ilan@cup.portal.com