Hypercard to Studio conversion

Mark Swindell mdswindell at cruzio.com
Wed Oct 4 15:23:14 EDT 2006


Try this:

on mouseUp
open stack mySubStack
close stack myMainStack
end mouseUp

Mark

On Oct 4, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Gordon Shimizu wrote:

> Thanks for this.
> My main directory stack contain buttons that opens other stacks. I  
> placed
> the close stack command in one of the button and it did close this  
> main
> directory stack.  However, it did not open the stack that this  
> button should
> have been linked to.  I used openStack and file name of the stack I  
> wanted
> to open with this button but nothing happened.  I think I am  
> missing the
> pathway to this stack I want to open.  Can you help?
> Thanks.
>
> On 10/3/06 10:17 PM, "Mark Swindell" <mdswindell at cruzio.com> wrote:
>
>> close command
>>
>> Platform support:
>> Introduced in version 1.0
>>
>> Closes a stack window.
>>
>> close stack
>>
>> close stack "Fearsome Stack"
>> close the defaultStack
>>
>> See also: close file command, close printing command, close process
>> command, close socket command, destroyStack property, go command,
>> revCloseVideoGrabber command, How do I open and close a drawer?, How
>> do I respond to closing a window?
>>
>> Description
>> Use the close command to close a stack without user intervention.
>>
>> Parameters:
>> The stack is any open stack.
>>
>> Comments:
>> The close command closes the stack window immediately, but it does
>> not necessarily remove the stack from memory. A stack that is closed
>> but in memory still takes up space in RAM and its objects are still
>> accessible to scripts.
>>
>> If the stack's destroyStack property is set to false, or there are
>> other stacks in the same file that are still open, closing the stack
>> does not purge the stack from memory.
>>
>> If the handler that closes the stack is in the script of the stack
>> (or in the script of an object in the stack) and the stack's
>> destroyStack property is true, the stack window is closed
>> immediately, but the stack is not removed from memory until after the
>> handler completes.
>>
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Oct 3, 2006, at 4:25 PM, Gordon Shimizu wrote:
>>
>>> I'm in the process on converting a number of my hypercard stacks  
>>> into
>>> Studio.  I find Studio handlers very similar to hypercard's.
>>> However, the
>>> converted stacks do not behave as in hypercard (didn't expect it  
>>> to!).
>>> My converted stacks consist of a master directory stack that was
>>> linked to a
>>> subdirectory stack then to the individual topic stacks.  In
>>> hypercard, when
>>> I opened the master directory stack to open the subdirectory  
>>> stack the
>>> master directory stack would simply close.  In studio, the master
>>> directory
>>> stack window is still open and behind the subdirectory window.  How
>>> can I
>>> get the master directory to close as well as any stacks that is
>>> opened from
>>> the subdirectory stack?
>>>
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