Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!arc!steve From: steve@arc.UUCP (Steve Savitzky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: indexes in hypercard Summary: problems with multiple backgrounds Message-ID: <482@arc.UUCP> Date: 24 Jul 89 16:46:53 GMT References: <514@extro.ucc.su.oz> <10510002@hpislx.HP.COM> Reply-To: steve@arc.UUCP (Steve Savitzky) Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 17 In article <10510002@hpislx.HP.COM> bayes@hpislx.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) writes: >If you create your standard background first, then make 26 new >backgrounds, [...] This works but it has a problem that I noticed the last time I did something of the sort: my card and background layouts tend to be pretty dynamic. I'm always tweaking -- adding a button, moving a field, changing a graphic... Propagating a change to each of 26 otherwise identical backgrounds gets to be a pain. (Of course, you can write scripts for propagating most kinds of change, but that requires planning ahead :-) -- Steve Savitzky | steve@arc.uucp | apple.com!arc!steve ADVANsoft Research Corp. | (408) 727-3357(w) / 294-6492(h) 4301 Great America Parkway | #include Santa Clara, CA 95054 | May the Source be with you!