Modifying the Home Card Stack can make your environment more useful and friendly, but it can also complicate it quite a bit. Check the information about "Home Initializations" for guidelines on setting up your "improvements". Also remember that what you put into the Home Card stack script is available EVERYWHERE when you are using HyperCard. If you are not familiar with the "improvements" you may be surprised by certain actions. Also know that if a certain event (mouseUp, arrowKey, etc.) is handled by a card or bkgnd in another stack, unless it is PASSed on, the "improvements" in your Home Stack will not see the event and will not respond.
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Suggestions:
ΓÇó Thoroughly document (via -- comments) your additions to the Home Card Stack script.
ΓÇó Describe in your comments the XCMDs and XFCNs you use.
ΓÇó Make a backup copy of your Home Stack frequently - on a disk you don't use.
ΓÇó Be careful about globals. Make sure they are declared everywhere they are needed or else they will not be defined.
ΓÇó Remember that any of the "improvements" can be invoked by a command in the message window. If you use the commandKey improvement, you can have quick access to any of them you want to use that you have setup.