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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Recursion, etc...
Keywords: go to next card
Message-ID: <25819@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 89 21:46:20 GMT
References: <3134@pixar.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <3134@pixar.UUCP> flip@pixar.UUCP (Flip Phillips) writes:
>I have a background script wich, when it gets an openCard
>message it waits a certain amount of time, then does a go to next
>card. This is bad since this thing recurses...
>...
>is there another way i should be doing this?

Here is one way to get around this problem:
 - instead of using the openCard message to continue the slide show,
put the whole sequence in a repeat loop located in the handler that
starts the slide show. For instance,
   on mouseUp
     repeat for the number of cards
       wait 5 seconds
       go to next card
     end repeat
   end mouseUp

jeanne a. e. devoto
jdevoto@apple.com