New user question

[Paul Gabel]

Hi Steve:

If you don't get an adequate solution to your problem, you can always  
keep the stack visible and set its location to -1000,-1000. Then, when  
you want it visible, just < set the loc of stack "Invisible" to the  
screenLoc > or wherever you want it.

Paul Gabel

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On Aug 13, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Steve Jones wrote:

> on mouseUp
>   go stack "VoluntTracker Volunteers"
>   wait 3 seconds
>   beep
>   wait 3 seconds
>   show stack "VoluntTracker Volunteers"
> end mouseUp
>
> I put the beep in to test to be sure it was running.
>
> The error I get is:
>
> button "New Volunteer": execution error at line 6 (Chunk: can't find  
> stack), char 4
>
>
> I've tried combinations of open, show, go, set invisible, and use  
> the stack name and the stack ID.
>
> Always the same error.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 13, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> 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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