If I'm right, the number of the background is not always the order you find
it in the stack, which means there is no way of finding the next background
without looping through all the cards. This I believe was a feature of early
HyperCard?
> From: Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:24:16 +0000
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Next background?
>
> On 16/2/00 1:36 pm, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone help me with the ins and outs of the "next" keyword:
>>
>> The following works fine:
>>
>> 1) answer the short name of next card
>>
>> While:
>>
>> 1) answer the short name of next background
>>
>> Works in HyperCard but not Metacard. Is a there a way of phrasing this or do
>> I have to resort to looking at the number of the current background, adding
>> 1 etc?
>
> You have to resort to adding 1 to the number of the backGround, or looking
> up the next line in the backGroundNames stack property.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin
>
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