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From: pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo Fernicola)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Hypercard questions + suggestions
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Date: 7 Apr 89 02:59:27 GMT
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Reply-To: pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo Fernicola)
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Let me start with the questions:

1- Can I define my own event? I thought I read that in one of the hypercard
books but I can't find it again ( I usually read after midnight, so I probably
dreamt it up :-)).

2- Inside a XFCN (written in C) are there any special considerations regarding 
the use of NewHandle & DisposHandle?  Could I use malloc(), or calloc()? (I
still get confused by Handle stuff, specially in relation to an array of
structures, with each structure containing a 2D array of strings).

3- If a have a variable Var and it contains mem1 and mem2, given by 
		put "mem1,mem2" into Var
how can I do the following,

	"put the value of item 1 of Var into the value of item 2 of Var"
	
so if mem1 had "hello" to start with and mem2 was empty, after doing the
line above, mem2 would contain "hello".  I tried placing mem2 in target, but 
it didn't work.  I also tried "put item 2 of Var into the target" and it 
didn't work.

Wish List:

1- User definable events, ie. 

on myEvent
	do stuff
	pass myEvent
end myEvent

2- Broadcast capabilities, to pass an event to other objects (buttons and
fields) at the same level or higher, ie.

on myEvent
	do stuff
	broadcast myEvent
	pass myEvent --maybe broadcast acts only at the same level
end myevent

3- A way to use a more resourceful editor to write scripts.


I would like to end by expressing my great admiration for the people that
developed Hypercard and those that are working on improving it.  Thanks!
--
Pablo Fernicola			pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu
Machine Intelligence Laboratory
University of Florida
Disclaimer: The above opinions belong only to me.