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From: greggor@Apple.COM (Greg L. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: How can I dim text?
Keywords: dim text, HyperCard,
Message-ID: <46466@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 90 19:19:06 GMT
References: <1844@diemen.utas.edu.au>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1844@diemen.utas.edu.au> lin@diemen.utas.edu.au (Tony Lim) writes:
>Can any one out there tell me how can dim a text string?  I am developing
>a stack with many buttons.  I like to set the textStyle to "dimmed", so that
>it is disabled but people can still see it.

In HC 1.2, I painted text onto the card graphics behind buttons I wanted
to disable & dimmed them manually.  When I wanted to disable a button, I
just used the "hide cd button foo" command.

It worked wonderfully, but it was a pain to move the background bits around
if the buttons needed to be repositioned.

HC 2.0 might have better disable tools, but I haven't had much time to
take a look at it yet.

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