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Article #19841Re: another hypercard questions: card number
From: David Fry
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1987 22:52
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1987 22:52
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In article <29981@sun.uucp> chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >[Anyone for comp.sys.mac.hypercard? or comp.lang.hypercard? > >Here's another one that should be a no-brainer, but the information doesn't >seem to be in the Goodman book. I want to have a line on one of my cards >that says "card #<num> of <num>". I can find the second value, the total >number of cards. I can't find any documentation for getting what card number >this is. Goodman simply says "since cards can be re-arranged, use the card >id and not that card number" -- well, I WANT that card number. You want to ask for "the number of this card". Pretty nifty, huh? I think you should give Goodman's book more credit; these things are in there, albeit well hidden. David Fry fry@huma1.harvard.EDU Department of Mathematics fry@harvma1.bitnet Harvard University ...!harvard!huma1!fry Cambridge, MA 02138
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!huma1!fry From: fry@huma1.HARVARD.EDU (David Fry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: another hypercard questions: card number Message-ID: <2938@husc6.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 18:52:22 EDT Article-I.D.: husc6.2938 Posted: Mon Oct 5 18:52:22 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Oct-87 05:42:57 EDT References: <29981@sun.uucp> Sender: news@husc6.UUCP Reply-To: fry@huma1.UUCP (David Fry) Organization: Harvard Math Department Lines: 18