[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] Hypercard problem

stuart@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Stuart Liroff) (11/05/87)

I am having a problem with a Hypercard stack that I built.  The problem is that my cursor times out within 25 - 50 seconds REGARDLESS of whether I am typing or not.  Does anyone know if there is some default setting which I may have inadvertantly set?  Thank you....stuart liroff

roskill@cs.umass.edu (03/02/90)

Hello again,

Sorry to bother you guys again, but I had a woman come to
me with a strange hypercard problem.  She designed a stack
that would open an MS Word file and read part of it into
a field.  Her commands all sound good and correct, but the
behavior is odd to say the least.  When she was initially
designing the stack, she was working with a test case/sample
of a file.  After the stack seemed to be working she deleted
the file and changed the name to the correct name of the file
she wished to read in.  Despite changing the name and the
file being deleted from the mac, Hypercard continues to
read in the same data that was in the test case!  Very bizzare
indeed.  She has tried rebooting, and it has no affect.
Anybody else out there ever encounter this problem?


Thanks in advance,

Damian

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