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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: "Too many pending messages" Error?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug24.153314.10329@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 15:33:14 +1200
- References: <1992Aug11.110751.14578@uva386.schools.virginia.edu>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1992Aug11.110751.14578@uva386.schools.virginia.edu>, wayne@uva386.schools.virginia.edu (Tony Wayne) writes:
- > I writing a hypercard stack that runs like a slide show. The
- > user is not to pess any buttons. In fact, when done the
- > computer will be on the other side of a window. Here the rub.
- > While running the program I get an error -debug, script,
- > cancel- box that says "Too many pending messages." What does
- > this mean and most importantly how can I get rid of it?
- >
- > I backed up to the previous card and the stack began running
- > again. But this time it didn't show me the error box. The
- > error box only shows up when I begin from the beginning ofthe
- > stack. Appearantly after running through so many card scripts.
- >
- > The stack is written by using "On OpenCard" scripts on each
- > card.
- >
- > Suggestions?
- > -Tony Wayne
-
- How about using an Idle handler to switch cards, rather than doing it
- from within OpenCard handlers? This way you won't too deep a nesting of
- OpenCard calls.
-
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