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From: fk00133r@uwasa.fi (Jari Perkiomaki FKR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: A pop-up background field ?
Message-ID: <1990Mar27.173252.21738@uwasa.fi>
Date: 27 Mar 90 17:32:52 GMT
Sender: fk00133r@uwasa.fi (Jari Perkiomaki FKR)
Organization: University of Vaasa
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Hi,

I'm a novice HC programmer and faced with an irritating problem:
I would like to have a pop-up background field with text in it, to
be used anywhere in the stack. I don't want to make a pop-up card
field because the stack is open-ended with tens of different-looking
cards (only one background, however). I feel that the pop-up field
should be independent of any specific card in the stack, so it must
be in the background, right?

Now, the only solution I could find so far is the following:

on mouseUp
  put empty into text
  put "fld "&quote&"About..."&quote into text
  show text
  put "Some text, not very much..." into text
  wait until the mouseClick
  hide fld "About..."
end mouseUp

The problem is that all of the text to be shown in this field must be
written into the PUT statement in the middle of the handler. I've also
found that, in some cases, the text is not even visible in the field :-(

So any suggestions, please ?

Thanks in advance,

--Jari
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Jari K Perkiomaki, OH6BG, U of Vaasa   *   School of Modern Languages
fk00133r@uwasa.fi  Site 128.214.12.3   *   PL 297, SF-65101 VAASA -- FINLAND
My opinions (c) 1990. Patent pending.