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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: buttons and fields in the background
Message-ID: <36081@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 31 Oct 89 20:39:41 GMT
References: <5048@bgsuvax.UUCP> <6237@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <6237@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> sandyg@tekirl.LABS.TEK.COM
(Sandy Grossmann) writes:
>I originally had a transparent button in the background and found it 
>necessary to write text in a field in the same area.  When I created the 
>field, I could no longer access the button.  Sending the field farther back 
>and bringing the button closer didn't work at all.  Neither did moving the 
>button out and then placing the button "on top" of the field.

It sounds like the button was in the background and the field was in the
card layer. Bring Closer and Send Farther only work within a layer; in
other words, any card object will be "closer" than all background objects.
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