If exists question

[Thomas McGrath III]

You may also need to try
go to card id dNewCardID

Tom

I've done the same thing myself many times.

On Mar 29, 2004, at 12:18 AM, Ken Ray wrote:

>
>> The new card's abbr ID is put into global gNewCardID
>>
>> Then, at the end of this handler:
>>
>> wait 30 milliseconds -- put in to allow Rev to catch up with
>> functions if exists(gNewCardID)
>>     then
>>        go to gNewCardID
>>        put emtpy into gNewCardID
>> end if
>>
>> Rev can't find this new card.  I have captured the global gNewCardID
>> into "msg" and it updates and shows the newly created card abb ID.
>
> The problem is you can't "go" to an ID number, you have to "go card"...
> right now when you ask if gNewCardID exists, you're asking if the 
> *variable*
> gNewCardID exists (which it does), and then you effectively are saying:
>
>   go to 1024
>
> which doesn't mean anything to Rev, and so you get the error. Try this:
>
> wait 30 milliseconds -- put in to allow Rev to catch up with functions
> if exists(card gNewCardID)
>     then
>        go to card gNewCardID
>        put emtpy into gNewCardID
> end if
>
> HTH,
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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>
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