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- Path: sparky!uunet!bcstec!bcsaic!lbaum@atc.boeing.com
- From: lbaum@atc.boeing.com (Larry Baum)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: copy/pasting a card--question...
- Message-ID: <80965@bcsaic.boeing.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 17:52:11 GMT
- References: <BtB4w8.FJy@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Sender: nntp@bcsaic.boeing.com
- Organization: Boeing Computer Services
- Lines: 33
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- In article <BtB4w8.FJy@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> bhostetl@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- (Brian Hostetler) writes:
- >
- > Here is a little script:
- >on AddCard
- > doMenu Copy Card
- > doMenu Paste Card
- > ask "Please enter the strain name for this card."
- > put it into Card Name:
- >end AddCard
- >
- > Does anyone know how to get hypercard to copy a specific card from
- >anywhere else in the stack? That is, when a user clicks on the AddCard
- >button, I would like the stack to copy a template card located
- >elsewhere and place it where the user is. I guess a round-about way
- >of doing it would be for hypercard to take the user *to* the template
- >card and copy it and then ask the user to go to where they want it to
- >be and then paste it, but...
- > Also, the 'put it into Card Name:' obviously does not work.
- >What qualifier am I missing???
- >--
-
- How about:
-
- lock screen
- push this card
- go to card "Template"
- doMenu "Copy Card"
- pop card
- doMenu "Paste Card"
- ...
-
- set the name of this card to it
-