Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!t-jacobs
From: t-jacobs@wasatch.UUCP (Tony Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: How about static fields???
Message-ID: <1027@wasatch.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 89 19:35:17 GMT
References: <979@wasatch.UUCP> <69824GAB100@PSUVM> <1021@wasatch.UUCP> <4339@charon.unm.edu>
Reply-To: t-jacobs@wasatch.utah.edu.UUCP (Tony Jacobs)
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <4339@charon.unm.edu> stone@hydra.unm.edu.UUCP (Andrew Stone CS.DEPT) writes:
>
>There is a simple solution: keep the static text in a field on any given 
>card, and on new card, put that text into the new card's field.
>
>on newcard
>  put fld "info" of card "master" into fld "info"
>  ...
>end newcard.


If you read my origional post, that is almost exactly what I said I was doing.
If you want to do that with a lot of fields then you need a script for every
field and as I origionally mentioned you need to remove the text upon leaving
the card if you don't want a large stack to get way bigger than it needs to be.
Also with a lot of static fields of this type it slow things down quite a bit
waiting to copy each time you go to a card.

I agree it was simple to do what I wanted to do but "simple" is not always easy
to edit nor is it always as fast as it could be.







-- 
Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu