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		gcanyon on Nov 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Hypercard Had to Die The code for this could have simpler/less verbose. It's been a while, but I believe in the number buttons this would have worked: `put the short name of me after fld "lcd"` and in the equals sign button: `put the value of fld "lcd" into fld "lcd"` (edited to fix a missing quote)

asciilifeform on Nov 30, 2011 [–]

Thanks!

Also there is an extra eval (the first one is unnecessary, I think.) But I am too lazy to revise the screenshots.

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