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From: dcc@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Daniel Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: help with a hypercard xfcn
Keywords: hypercard,xfcn
Message-ID: <1990Jan5.181928.15462@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 90 18:19:28 GMT
Reply-To: dcc@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Daniel Carr)
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Organization: NCSU Computing Center
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i'm writing an xfcn for hypercard in which i pass it the name of a
field.  i then perform changes on that field and return the changed
field back to hypercard.  i can get it work ok, but i'd like to make it
more versatile.  right now i pass it the name of the field, but i'd like
to be able to pass the name, the number, the id number.  is there an
easy way to do this, outside of parsing up the string to see exactly
what the user is passing as the name of the field?  (i'm using the
"glue" files with think pascal 2.0x)

basically, i'm wondering if i have to write a big text parsing procedure
to see if the name, number, id number is passed, so i can use the proper
procedure to get a handle to it.

and also is there an easy way to see if a card/background field is being
passed, outside of doing text parsing (string comparison)

thanks for any help

daniel carr
 
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