sc05@bunny.UUCP (Chio Chang) (10/22/88)
I just started using hypercard and was trying to do a very simple
thing: dumping some information from the cards of a stack to a file. I
wrote a simple script which goes to each card and dump the information out.
It worked fine but was SLOW. It would be nice NOT to GOTO each card to save
time. Therefore, I rewrote the script which now puts lines like:
write field style of card n & return to file fileName
inside a repeat loop. This time, however, when writing one of the fields,
I got the message: "Can't find this property", although all fields seemed
identical, in terms of where they are defined and other characteristics.
Furthermore, when I remove the line writing that field, the script ran
without complaining, but SOME of the "return"s did not get written.
Remember, the script runs fine without the "of card n" and with a
"goto card n" in the loop.
This really puzzled me. Anybody has any suggestions?
S.C. Chang
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