Converting Hypercard Stack -- No Scripts?

[Ben Rubinstein]

Sivakatirswami wrote:
 >
 > I just opened the HC stack in Revolution and viola it appears. But I'm 
getting some strange behaviors that I don't know how to solve.

...
 > No script editor is invoked, and the script of the button with the 
"offending" command is not available.
 >
 > Any ideas?

I had something similar happen a month or two ago; a stack that had started 
life in HyperCard, been converted to Revolution several years ago.  Opened in 
3.0, couldn't open any scripts.  But simply "put"ing the script of any object 
delivered the script fine.  So the scripts are there (and as you noted you may 
even be able to run) but something fouls up with the script editor so it 
doesn't open.

Unfortunately, I can't now recall what changed to sort this out.  I recall 
that I did what I immediately needed to do in 2.9 (or was it even 2.8?) (where 
the script editor still worked fine) instead of 3.0.   Did simply opening and 
resaving the stack from 2.8/2.9 fix it (it would previously have last been 
saved from a much earlier version)?  Or was it a change I made in the scripts 
- eg I recall that the scripts used the 'byte' as a variable, which of course 
in 3.0 became a reserved word.

Sorry - this was one of those times where I was under too much pressure to be 
able to put any time into figuring out what was going on, I just needed to 
find a workaround and get on with my work.  But if you're seeing it too, 
there's evidently a problem that's been introduced, and it would be good to 
track it down.

- Ben