Stack handler not available from cd script?

[Ken Ray]

> In my experience, MetaCard is a little less reliable
> than HyperCard when it comes to traversing the message 
> hierarchy. In my case : when a button calls a handler in the 
> stack, AND THEN calls a handler which is in the btn AND in 
> the stack, MetaTalk will oddly select the handler in the 
> stack instead of the one in the button.

I just tried this in MC 2.5.1 and it doesn't perform as you describe; it
calls the handler in the button and not in the stack. I did this:

<button script>

on mouseUp
  DoThis
  DoThat
end mouseUp

on DoThat
  put "that" after msg
end DoThat

<stack script>

on DoThis
  put "this" after msg
end DoThis

on DoThat
  put "stackthat" after msg
end DoThat

When I ran it, I got "thisthat" in the message box, not "thisstackthat".
At first I thought it might have to do with HyperCard importation, but
when I set the hcAddressing and dynamicPaths of the stack to true, I got
the same result.

Perhaps you recall this in an earlier version of MC?

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