This I would call a bug

[Richard Gaskin]

David Bovill wrote:
> Getting the text from a particular card? A background field on a 
> particular card? That is you have a stack with several cards and a 
> background shared by all the cards...
> 
>     put the long id of fld 1 of card 2 into someField
>     put the text of someField
>     answer the text of fld 1 of card 2
> 
> These should be the same - no? Well they are not - "the text of 
> someField" returns the text of the current card (ie the one displayed) 
> and not the text of the second card.

I don't think that's a bug as much as an ambiguous object reference, 
since it's the same field object on both cards.

If you want the text of that object from a specific card you could 
change line 2 to:

  put the text of fld 1 of cd 2

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