Unless you need to manipulate behaviors, there is no need. However, once you
wade in on that, you are essentially bound to do so.
Bob S
> On Nov 1, 2014, at 05:34 , Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
>
> Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
>
> After more than 15 years with Hypercard and more than 10
> wit
On Nov 1, 2014, at 5:13 AM, Friedrich F. Grohmann wrote:
> I've run into a strange problem with a stack. After changing the order of a
> few cards (by way of copy/paste) a number of the involved cards will not
> respond to "go card id xxx". The card inspector clearly indicates both name
> and numb
Thanks to all kind souls who responded. Björnke's explanation helped a lot
and, indeed, I assumed the displayed name was actually the ID since so far
it never failed me.
Again, thanks a lot.
Best,
Fritz
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
> The Inspector does not show th
The Inspector does not show the ID of cards by default, it only pretends to do
it, by using "card id " as default name. If you change the name, you can
see the "real" id appear on top of the inspector window. This is done in the
IDE with a script and might possibly be confused in your case
I can only suggest the obvious...
- Double-check the id against the inspector using the message box: "put the
id of this cd", "put there is a cd id []" etc
- Re-launch LC in case of digital indigestion
- Revert to backup and move the cards using number rather than cut/paste
- Worst case sce
Thanks for your response.
So far, indeed, I've reshuffled the cards by setting the number and never
had a problem. This strange situation arose when I wrote a script to move a
larger number of cards to the end of the stack and then tried to reconnect
the moved cards by their new ids to a button sc
