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From: gzp@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Sikorski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Backgrounds, sub (super backgrounds)
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Date: 19 Mar 90 23:21:16 GMT
References: <16814@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <285@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <287@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Reply-To: gzp@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Sikorski)
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In article <287@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> dale@bcm.tmc.edu(Dale A. Samuelsen) writes:
>> In article <16814@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> abdenour@mist.cs.orst.edu  writes:
>> > is it possible to define one background in terms of another?
>
>What I should have said above is that to copy items from one background to 
>another you must first create a new background (under the Objects menu), 
>then -while in background mode - copy the items one at a time from the old 
>background to the new.  That's much more tedious than my fantasy method, 
>but much more effective :-).
>
>Dale A. Samuelsen

I'm not sure if this will be helpful or not, but for a large number of buttons
and/or fields, this could also be very tedious.  I made a temporary stack and
copied the card with the desired subset background into this stack.  Then I 
added a few buttons or fields, and cut this new card out of the temporary
stack and pasted it back into the original.  Cards that have been pasted into
a stack no longer copy the background of those in front of it.  I'm sure
there are easier ways than this (e.g. writing a script), but this was great
for a person who didn't know too much about script writing.  Hope it helps.

                     Bob Sikorski
                     Purdue University
                     gzp@mentor.cc.purdue.edu