Go Stack

[Phil Davis]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: Go Stack


> I wrote:
> > 
> > I think I went astray
> > because I've done the stack-on-the-web thing in HC and I was looking for
> > similar behavior in MC, but I guess it isn't going to work.
> 
> Whoa. I accidentally did it -- it does work. :) Very cool. I didn't have
> all the pieces together exactly right at any given time before.
> 
> It looks like every reference to an object has to be a long reference. I
> was incorrectly using short references before. 

You might be able to set "the defaultStack" to the target stack and then use short references - but I don't know for sure.

Phil



> Anyway, I ended up with this:
> 
> on startup
>   put $QUERY_STRING into theTerm
>   put "" into buffer
>   if theTerm = "" then
>     put "No query submitted." after buffer
>   else
>     start using "mystack.mc"
>     repeat with x = 1 to the number of cds of stack "mystack"
>       get fld "title" of cd x of stack "mystack"
>       if it contains theTerm
>       then put it &" - " & fld "author" of cd x \
>          of stack "mystack" & cr after buffer
>     end repeat
>     stop using "mystack.mc"
>   end if
>   if buffer = "" then put "No titles found." into buffer
>   put "Content-Type: text/plain" & cr
>   put "Content-Length:" && the length of buffer & cr & cr
>   put buffer
> end startup
> 
> So you have to loop through everything, checking each field and card,
> one at a time. The stack is fairly small so it doesn't take too long.
> Now I have to add in looping through all the fields, but now that the
> foundation is there that shouldn't be too hard.
> 
> Thanks guys.
> 
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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