bowden@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John William Bowden) (07/27/90)
I need a way to "get" fields from other stacks cards without going to the stack, i.e. I want to say -> "get cd fld x of cd a of stack b" where x, a and b are names/numbers, unfortunately it doesn't work (cant understand arguments to "get"). I am presently doing it by going to the stack "b" and then "get cd fld x of cd a" but I hate all the flashing of cards just to get the lousy field, not to mention the extraneous open/closeCard and open/closeStack messages that I am getting in the stack which wants the fields. Just to make things clear, I want to do this "getting" from a script and right now the activity of the stack is not very transparent to the user. If this topic has already been beaten to death I apologize (but I still need to know.) ;^) Please e-mail responses. If there is interest and I get any good solutions, I will post a summary. Thanks in advance, John Bowden ______________________________________________________________________ * John W. Bowden * bowden@csd4.csd.uwm.edu * * Computer Specialist * INTERNET * * UW-Milwaukee * "It's hard to work in groups * * Language Resource Center * when you are omnipotent." * * P.O. Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201 * -Q * * (414) 229-4447 * * ----------------------------------------------------------------------