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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