Seems a bit silly...

Éric Chatonet eric.chatonet at wanadoo.fr
Fri Oct 8 08:43:31 EDT 2004


Le 8 oct. 04, à 11:31, "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fde101 at fjrhome.net> a 
écrit :

> Should this, or should it not, be valid Transcript code for a
> preOpenStack handler in a stack script:
>
> if the target is the first card of me then
>
> Upon execution, that code results in the complaint:
>
> Chunk: source is not a container
>
> So I try this:
>
> if the name of the target is the name of the first card of me then
>
> Which is accepted; however, this is in a main stack; opening one of its
> substacks should NOT cause the code within the 'if' block to execute,
> correct?  But it does...
>
> How can I avoid this problem?

Hi Frank,

In a stack script, I am used to place this handy line at the beginning 
of any handler I want to be trapped only in this stack:

if the short name of me <> the short name of this stack then exit 
<handler name>

It always works "à la perfection"!
Hope this helps.

Amicalement,

Éric Chatonet
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