New user question

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu Aug 13 18:10:54 EDT 2009


Steve Jones wrote:
> Hello!  I am new to RR but have used SuperCard for many years an  
> amateur and HyperCard before that.  I'm working on my first project  
> and I had a question.  I have a stack with 2 substacks.  (I love the  
> idea of substacks, btw).  From the main stack I want to open a  
> substack but keep it invisible,  then later show it.  In SuperCard it  
> would be:
> 
> open invisible project projectName
> show project projectName (or:  set the invisible of project  
> projectName to true)
> 
> I seem to be able to use
> open invisible stack stackName
> 
> at least I don't get an error.  But later in the script when I try to  
> show or set the visible of the stack to true, I get an error that the  
> stack can't be found.
> 
> What am I missing?

What do those lines that are throwing errors look like?

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