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- Organization: Central Michigan University
- Date: Saturday, 26 Dec 1992 19:30:15 EST
- From: CHUCK WILLIAMS <34A6J53@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
- Message-ID: <92361.19301534A6J53@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Need equivalents to common data structures
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- Hello Geniuses,
-
- I am having a hard time getting used to hypertalk. I think it is
- very intuitive and easy to use, but I wish it had arrays, records,
- you know, good things like that. What I need is to be able to create
- a queue that will hold a list of people who are waiting for a
- computer (this is for a computer lab.) When a current users time
- is up, I have a flag that will alert me to that fact. What I would like
- to do is be able to move the first person in the queue to that available
- machine. The problem is I don't know how. Also, one more question. When
- I ask for student ID input (via the ask cmd), does it take the input as a
- character string or numeric (the input would be something like 21345679?)
- If it does read it as a number, how would I convert it to a character string?
-
- Hope these aren't rudimentary questions, I couldn't find the answers in the
- scripting guide. Thanks for any help you can give.
-
- Chuck
-
- P.S. Can you define arrays in hypercard? Or are they just fields you
- must reference one char at a time.
-