Stack Switching Question again
AbilityForms at aol.com
AbilityForms at aol.com
Wed Oct 5 10:52:51 EDT 2005
In a message dated 10/5/05 10:47:20 AM, ambassador at fourthworld.com writes:
> AbilityForms at aol.com wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > Often times I have a button switch stacks in order to retrieve data that I
> > need to complete that button's task. In HyperCard I could lock the screen,
> lock
> > the messages, push the card, go to the data stack, retrieve the data, pop
> the
> > card and insert the found data. All without displaying the data stack.
> When I
> > do the same thing in Revolution it displays the data stack for a flash.
> Why
> > does that happen, and how do I stop that data stack from showing?
>
> Better still, you don't need to "go" to a stack to retrieve data from
> it. You can just get it:
>
> get fld "Whatever" of cd 200 of stack "MyData.rev"
>
> --
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Media Corporation
>
Good idea, except for the fact that I have to find the data after I get to
the data stack.
Joe
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