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From: carson@tron.UUCP (Dana Carson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Hypercard and Macromaker
Keywords: macros doMenu monitors functions
Message-ID: <451@tron.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 03:21:32 GMT
Organization: Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, Baltimore, MD, USA
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    I'm trying to open programs from inside Hypercard.  Some of them only
work in 2 color mode while others will work with 8 bit colors.  Wanting
to automate it as much as possible (6 year old is a user) I decide a
doMenu on a Macromaker macro to fiddle with the control panel.  Seemed
like a good idea but it doesn't work.

    Details are the doMenu by itself works fine but when I do a 
doMenu Black an White
open Macpaint

it opens on a color system.  When I go to quit it asks if I want to
interrupt the macro that is running.  But the macro never changes the
colors.

  Putting the doMenu in a function almost seems to work but when I call
a function to change to 2 bit and then one to change back to color it
does them in the wrong order!

  Using Mac II, System 6.0.3, Hypercard 1.2.2

  Thanks in advance for your help.

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