Setting a property on a different card

Dan Shafer revdan at danshafer.com
Wed Mar 16 19:36:09 EST 2005


The "start using" command doesn't actually open the stack, I think. Try 
"open invisible" the stack in addition to the "start using" and I 
suspect it'll work fine.

Dan

On Mar 16, 2005, at 8:56 AM, Len Morgan wrote:

> I'm having one additional problem with this little app when I start it 
> up:  As I said above, there is a main stack and a substack.  There is 
> a PRINT button on the main stack that causes the "ID Card" stack's 
> single card to print.  The problem I'm having is the first time I try 
> this, I get an error saying the card has to be opened before I can 
> print it.  If I open the Application Browser and double click on the 
> ID Card line (which displays it on the screen), then I can go back and 
> press the PRINT button and all is fine.  I have a preOpenStack handler 
> on the main stack the has "start using stack "ID Card" on it but that 
> doesn't seem to do the trick.  Any ideas?



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