Being an old Basicer, I am new to MC. So far, so good - actually amazing!!!
I usually frantically wave my arms when something doesn't work and stand up and walk
away when something does
work. However... over a 4 day period (6+ hours) I have tried, I believe, every
combination of code I can think of, BUT...
this thing below STOPS executing as soon as the "clone" command executes. Note I
first tried "create" (does the
same). I live in fear of some disgustingly simple mistake (always the worst kind). Can
anyone provide some clues to the
source of this problem?
on makePictures
#REM openfile with image names and make cards for each file name
put 0 into increment
put empty into picture
open file "volume2001_1images.txt" for read #REM open list of images file
repeat until eof
read from file "volume2001_1images.txt" until return # REM get image file name
add 1 to increment # increment counter add next element to array
put char 1 to 6 of it into picture[increment] # Put 6 letters of image file
name into array
if picture[increment] is not empty then
clone image "postcard" #clone an existing card
#### NG create invisible image picture[increment] # Make a new image card and
NAME it 6 letters of file name
wait 3 seconds # shows it exec quits before next line of code
put it into field id 1021 # TESTER
set the name of image "postcard" to picture[increment]
set the effective fileName of image picture[increment] to picture[increment] &
".gif" # Put file name into image card
end if
if picture[increment] is empty then exit repeat
end repeat
close file "volume2001_1images.txt"
end makePictures
One last knotty problem. The last card in my stack is ID 1031. Each "clone or create"
takes the next ID. I delete each
new card that is "cloned/created" but the ID number keeps growing -- I am now nearing
ID 1500 and cannot find a way
to reset? start again at ID 1032...??? Does it matter? Can IDs go up to 999,999,999?
Thanking you in advance... Lawrence Adams
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