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From: englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypercard questions + suggestions
Message-ID: <7623@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 7 Apr 89 18:13:43 GMT
References: <20013@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander)
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In article <20013@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo Fernicola) writes:
>3- If a have a variable Var and it contains mem1 and mem2, given by 
>		put "mem1,mem2" into Var
The above statement will put the literal string in quotes into the Var.
But you don't need to do this to reserve space.

>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 
One way is:
put item 1 of var into item 2 of var

Even if item 2 didn't exist before, it will now, and if item one was
999, var will now look like

999,999

>1- User definable events, ie. 
>
>on myEvent
>	do stuff
>	pass myEvent
>end myEvent
>
This is already a feature.  Try it by putting this handler into your
background script and then "send myEvent to [whatever]", where
[whatever] is some object below the background in the hierarchy (like
the card or a button).  Or you could just "send myEvent to background
1".
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                                               - Scott