Re: Opinions on openCard behavior

The HyperMedia Group, Inc. ((no email))
Sun, 28 Nov 1993 19:03:21 -0800 (PST)

> 3) change MetaCard to work like HyperCard, but add a "preOpenCard"
> message to support the old behavior.

> 4) add a "postOpenCard" message sent after all the redraws are done
> (perhaps on the first idle message sent to the card), which would act
> like openCard does in HyperCard.

Either 3 or 4 would work for me. We have definitely had this problem,
but not related to HyperCard translation. There are cases when we want
the screen to update first, and then execute the "open..." handler.
We've resorted to using an idle handler, but this is not always reliable.

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Eric Alderman hmg@netcom.com
The HyperMedia Group (510) 601-0900 x306