2 quick questions

Peter Brigham MD pmbrig at gmail.com
Thu Jun 17 07:33:00 EDT 2010


On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Mark Smith wrote:

> Hi Peter, no doubt the day will come. Thanks for the tip (I'm filing  
> these away in a word document. Mark Schonewille will undoubtedly  
> need something to base his FAQ on!)
>
> -- M

I save my collected tips in a Rev stack. Searchable. And poetically  
appropriate.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Brigham MD
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 8:27 AM
>
> A useful nugget -- if you need to get the current card of a stack that
> is not the frontmost stack, use the undocumented term
> "currentcard" (note lack of space character) -- as in:
> put the currentcard of stack "myStack" into cc
> which gets you something like:
> card id 1002
>
> "Currentcard" is equivalent to "this card" but works with any open
> stack, returning the id of the card that is currently showing in that
> stack. In your case this is unnecessary, as you are apparently needing
> to deal only with the one stack, so "this card" will do fine.





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