Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!shelby!portia!jessica!naomi From: naomi@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Naomi Takeuchi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Creating a new stack with empty fields Message-ID: <8104@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 10 Jan 90 01:02:51 GMT References: <1990Jan9.021328.18712@lsuc.on.ca> <50599@bbn.COM> <59@nrl-cmf.UUCP> Sender: USENET News System Reply-To: naomi@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Naomi Takeuchi) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 19 I'm currently working on a stack that creates a billing statement compiled from selections the user has made from a selection of inventory cards. When creating a new bill, I want to initialize all of the variables and clear all fields in the current stack AND create a new "cleared" stack for the next billing entry. I have all of the initialization scripts working, but since Hypercard saves all changes before quitting and the "Save A Copy..." feature requires the user to save the stack as "Copy of stackname" rather than "stackname", I can't get around forcing the user to save the previous stack as "Copy of stackname" and then renaming the stack at the Finder level. Ideally, I would like to mimic Microsoft Word's use of "Untitled" when it creates a new document and have Hypercard save all the changes to the previous stack as "stackname"; the new stack "Untitled" would be named by the user later. Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks. Naomi Takeuchi --------------