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From: bayes@hpislx.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: indexes in hypercard
Message-ID: <10510003@hpislx.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 89 17:56:01 GMT
References: <514@extro.ucc.su.oz>
Organization: HP Measurement Systems Operation - Loveland, CO
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> / hpislx:comp.sys.mac.hypercard / steve@arc.UUCP (Steve Savitzky) / 10:46 am  Jul 24, 1989 /
> 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 :-)

That's the nice thing about prototyping in HC, no need to do much planning
ahead. The nasty is the tendency to want to ship the prototype. :-)

> 
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Scott Bayes