main stack and substack questions

[Sarah Reichelt]

> But I would like to click a button in substack 1 to open substack 2 and when
> I click the button pass name of substack 1 and the card name that is
> currently open to substack 2 so that I am able to get info from flds within
> open card in substack 1, I hope this explains it better?

OK, I get it now. The simplest way might be to use global variables.

In your button on substack 1, have this script:

on mouseUp
   global gStack, gCard
   put the short name of this stack into gStack
   put the short name of this card into gCard
   go to stack "sub2"
end mouseUp

Then in the card or stack script of 2:

on openCard
   global gStack, gCard
   put fld "newrecord_id" of card gCard of stack gStack into fld "record_id"
end openCard


This method gives you access to that card & stack any time, but if you
only need to get the data once, then you could just put the data into
substack 2 before going to it e.g.

on mouseUp
  put fld "newrecord_id"  into fld "record_id" of stack "sub2"
  go to stack "sub2"
end mouseUp

Cheers,
Sarah