preOpenStack, openStack in Card 1?? Rules conformation.

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 11:23 PM +0200 3/30/2006, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
>The doc clearly states "the destination card". As I often :
>
>            "go to card "x" of (sub)stack "y"
>
>I assume this means "the openStack script in whatever card
>you FIRST go to in the stack" This could cause a problem if
>you have an "openstack" in a sub-stack .... !

It does cause problems, if the openStack handler in your main stack 
assumes that the main stack is the current stack when openStack is 
sent. In this case, when a substack is opened, the openStack message 
is sent to the current card of the substack, then to the substack 
itself, then to the main stack, so if the openStack message isn't 
intercepted first, the main stack's openStack handler will run in 
response to the substack opening.

There are three ways to avoid this:

1. Put the openStack handler in the main stack's first card, instead 
of in the stack script. This prevents the problem, since when the 
substack is opened, no message is sent to a card of the main stack - 
only the stack itself is in the substack's message path.

2. Put an empty handler in the substack's script, to stop the 
openStack message from going to the main stack:
   on openStack -- in substack's script
   end openStack

3. In the main stack's openStack handler, test which stack called it:
   on openStack
     if the owner of the target is not me then pass openStack
     -- do stuff for main stack opening
   end openStack
The target is a card, and the owner of the target is the stack that 
was opened. If the owner of the target is not "me" (the main stack, 
in this case), then this handler skips the rest of the instructions.
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