Caution when using "send" in an "openCard" handler

[Jim Hurley]

I'm sure the old hands with MC/Rev are familiar with this issue but 
it was news to me.

Create two cards.

In the second card place one button and one field.

Put the following handler in the button:

on mouseup
   beep
   put the tool & return after field 1
end mouseup

And the following handler in the card script:

on opencard
   put empty into field 1
   put "pointer,line,image,browse,button,pencil" into someTools
   repeat with i = 1 to the number of items in someTools
     choose the (item i of someTools) tool
     send "mouseUp" to button 1
   end repeat
end opencard

Now go from card 1 to card 2. This will call the "openCard" handler 
in the second card. I get only one beep and only "browse tool" 
appears in the field; no error message is generated.

It seems that the "send" message is received by the button on card 2 
(from the "openCard" handler) only when the "browse" tool is selected.

The selected tool does not appear to matter when the "send" message 
is sent from one button to another button; the problem appears only 
(?) when it comes from the "openCard" handler in the card script.

I have added to my new year's resolutions: Don't send messages to 
buttons in an openCard handler unless the browse tool is selected.

With respect to all other character-building resolutions, I subscribe 
to Oscar Wilde's observation:

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where 
they have no account."

-- 
Jim Hurley