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From: dlugose@ecsvax.UUCP (Dan Dlugose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: using fields with scroll bars
Message-ID: <7219@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 89 14:37:17 GMT
References: <4161@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Reply-To: dlugose@ecsvax.uncecs.edu.UUCP (Dan Dlugose)
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <4161@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> riddle@mathcs.emory.edu (Larry Riddle) writes:
>In addition, I have a button that is moved over the line where the
>click was made and then the button's hilite property is set to true.
>All this works fine. However, my problem is when the user then scrolls
>to see other lines in the field. As soon as the user starts to scroll,
>I would like my button to become unhilited so as not to distract from
>the scrolling field and ruin the visual effect. I suspect I could do

   I think you'll need overlaying button(s) or field(s).  However, one
invisible button over everything could decide whether it needed to
unhilite any other buttons, and then pass the mouseup.
   Dan Dlugose
   UNC Edu. Computing Service