preOpenStack question

[Ken Ray]

Richard,

If it is one stack/standalone opening another stack to a specific card, you
can use the construct:

  go card <cardDescriptor> of stack <stackDescriptor>

That would mean storing the starting card somewhere else (perhaps in the
standalone).

Does this help, or is this the first stack to open?

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard MacLemale" <rmaclema at tampabay.rr.com>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 9:41 AM
Subject: preOpenStack question


> Maybe a simple question...
>
> MetaCard stacks by default always open up to card 1.  I want to script a
> stack so that it will open to a different card - say, the last card a user
> visited.  I put this in the stack script:
>
> on closeStack
>    put the short name of this card into field "starting card" of card 1
>    save this stack
> end closeStack
>
> And that works well - when you leave the stack it remembers the last card
> you were on, in field "starting card."
>
> Then I did
>
> on preOpenStack
>    go card (field "starting card" of card 1)
> end preOpenStack
>
> But that does not work.  if I change the handler to openStack instead of
> preOpenStack, it works fine, BUT the stack initially goes to card 1 and
then
> jumps to the desired card... Which is ugly and confusing to the user.
I've
> played around with locking the screen (didn't work) and setting the
visible
> to false on preopenstack, then setting it to true after the go card line
in
> openstack, and that didn't work either - still had the jumping problem.
>
> What is the best, easiest way to open a stack to a card other than card 1?
>
> As usual, thanks in advance...
>
>
> --
> :)
> Richard MacLemale
> Network Administrator
> J. W. Mitchell High School
>
>
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