Hi Craig
Sorry about that, I keep pressing reply in my inbox versus the group's reply
button.
Somehow I got it to stop going to the next card. Here's the script...
on opencard
wait 5 seconds
go to card id 4346
visual effect dissolve
end opencard

on closecard
wait 1 second
pass closecard
end closecard

Your right, I've been looking on Ebay in that states here for that book.
Thanks
Dave


--- In hypercardclub@yahoogroups.com, Craig Newman <craig@s...> wrote:
>
> You need to know that the "opencard" message is sent whenever a new card
> opens. It is sent automatically, as a system message. This message may be
> "trapped" along the way, if you want to do something with it.
>
> If you have written such an opencard handler, you may be generating spurious
> messages that get out of control. Please post your handler, and we can
> easily find the problem. Is it so that you have placed your opencard handler
> in the card script?
>
> For example, if your opencard handler says "go next card", you will do just
> that whenever the card opens, and never see the card that you want to edit
> the script of. Imagine if this line of code were in an opencard handler in
> the stack script. The cards would advance continuously forever.
>
> This is a basic issue with understanding message control, and all new users
> go through it. But once you get the hang of it, which will take about five
> minutes, you will be well on your way. This issue gives you power, it does
> not confuse or take it away. You'll see.
>
> You must get "The complete Hypercard Handbook" by Danny Goodman. You are
> jumping right into the highest level of construction, and that is a good
> thing, just what HC is meant to offer. You just need to understand that you
> will trip up now and then. That is what we are here for.
>
> Again. post this stuff also to the HC mail list:
>
> HyperCard@yahoogroups.com
>