opening a diferent card based on day of the week

[magice]

I have a stack with 7 cards. I need a script that will look at the day of the week it is when the stack is opened, and go to a specific card based on that data. i have been trying to use the date function to get the data i need, but I have so far been unsuccessful. How can I sort the day portion of the data from the rest of the date?

[jmburnod]

Hi Magice,

if i understand what you want this script should work

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on openstack
   GoCdTheDay
end openstack

on GoCdTheDay
   put the long date into TheDate
   put item 1 of TheDate into TheDay
   put TheDay
   open cd TheDay
end GoCdTheDay

Best

Jean-Marc

[magice]

thank you, that put me on the right path. However it still has one unexpected problem in my situation. Each of my cards is tied to a tab menu group so I can switch "days" manually by clicking the tabs. The script changes each card, but the tab menus hilight doesn't follow.
I have tried the following script to rectify this:

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set the hilitedButton of group "Days" to TheDay

(Group "Days" being my tab menu) I recieved an error that TheDay was not an integer
so I tried the following script:

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if the value of TheDay = "Monday" then put 1 into tDayNum
   else end if
   if the value of TheDay = "Teusday" then put 2 into tDayNum
   else end if
   if the value of TheDay = "Wednesday" then put 3 into tDayNum
   else end if
   if the value of TheDay = "Thursday" then put 4 into tDayNum
   else end if
   if the value of TheDay = "Friday" then put 5 into tDayNum
   else end if
   if the value of TheDay = "Saturday" then put 6 into tDayNum
   else end if
   if the value of TheDay = "Sunday" then put 7 into tDayNum
   else end if
   put tDayNum
set the hilitedButton of group "Days" to tDayNum

but it isn't working either. Any idea how to get the Tab Menu to follow the cards the same way the cards follow the tab menu?

[Mark]

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[bn]

Magice,
look at the menuhistory in the dictionary. You can switch the tab at the same time you switch to the card or you could just set

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 set the menuHistory of button "Tab Menu" to tDayNum

where tDayNum is a number which corresponds to your Tab Menu. This switches to the card. So you would not issue a go to card x but just change the menuhistory of the Tab Menu. By the way you can also query the menuhistory of the tab menu to know which is the active tab.
regards
Bernd

[magice]

Once again Bernd you saw past my poor descriptions got to the root of the problem.
Thank You