campbell@jell-o.Berkeley.EDU (Robert I. Campbell) (12/14/88)
In writing a fairly large stack to provide a graphic front end for UNIX I have encountered a problem. I have a visible scrolling locked field which uses Geneva font. Upon occasion it will take input, but not display it. What I mean by this is that after a command like 'put "blah" into card field "Bottom"' not text will appear in the field. I checked and found that the scroll is 0, and the command 'put first line of card field "Bottom"' will usually (but not always put "blah" into the message box. Additionally, if I put card field "Bottom" into card field "Middle" the desired text will appear there. the final element of the mystery is that if I delete the field and then paste it back in again it will properly desplay any input for a while. It seems as though HyperCard is munging some internal variables which are then reset when the field is cut and re-pasted. I am using HyperCard 1.2. Any suggestions? A second question: Can anyone direct me to an XCMD which will implement the KERMIT file transfer protocol? - Robert Campbell -