Richard, If it is one stack/standalone opening another stack to a specific card, you can use the construct:
go card <cardDescriptor> of stack <stackDescriptor> That would mean storing the starting card somewhere else (perhaps in the standalone). Does this help, or is this the first stack to open? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard MacLemale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 9:41 AM Subject: preOpenStack question > Maybe a simple question... > > MetaCard stacks by default always open up to card 1. I want to script a > stack so that it will open to a different card - say, the last card a user > visited. I put this in the stack script: > > on closeStack > put the short name of this card into field "starting card" of card 1 > save this stack > end closeStack > > And that works well - when you leave the stack it remembers the last card > you were on, in field "starting card." > > Then I did > > on preOpenStack > go card (field "starting card" of card 1) > end preOpenStack > > But that does not work. if I change the handler to openStack instead of > preOpenStack, it works fine, BUT the stack initially goes to card 1 and then > jumps to the desired card... Which is ugly and confusing to the user. I've > played around with locking the screen (didn't work) and setting the visible > to false on preopenstack, then setting it to true after the go card line in > openstack, and that didn't work either - still had the jumping problem. > > What is the best, easiest way to open a stack to a card other than card 1? > > As usual, thanks in advance... > > > -- > :) > Richard MacLemale > Network Administrator > J. W. Mitchell High School > > > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard > _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
