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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