Ghost Text Exorcised
Rob Cozens
rcozens at pon.net
Mon May 3 10:00:24 EDT 2004
Hi Everyone:
On April 15th I posted:
>>
Mystery:
When the instruction card is printed along with the report card(s),
it prints as expected; however its text is also superimposed over the
text of the data card as well.
<<
Well the mystery is solved, and the guilty party is moi. Perhaps
someone can benefit from my mistake:
Always, always, always compact, compact, & compact a HyperCard stack
before opening & saving it in Revolution.
Ah what a foole I am! Not only did I fail to compact the two stacks;
but I actually opened one of the two in HC and deleted one card &
four fields on another card before opening the stack in Revolution.
Now there is a recipe for certain disaster: I don't want to think
about how much time I've spent ghost hunting and scripting & testing
workarounds to problems that were endemic to the stacks themselves.
Special thanks to Robert Brenstein for looking deeply into the code,
suggesting improvements & alternatives, and acted as the sounding
board I needed to root out my ghost.
Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."
from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)
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