Stack Switching Question again

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Wed Oct 5 11:51:13 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

In most cases, all can be done remotely without explicitely going to 
the stack. You can even execute scripts remotely using either send or 
call. If you provide more details, someone may be able to suggest how 
to approach it.

Robert



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