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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: On hiding HyC 2.0 under multifinder
Summary: use "the suspended" property
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Date: 6 Dec 90 09:13:03 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.154718.9314@trumpet.cit.cornell.edu>
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In article <1990Dec5.154718.9314@trumpet.cit.cornell.edu>
chris@trumpet.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>Under the old version of HyperCard while you were running in multifinder
>on a 9" screen, when you went to another program, HyperCard hit itself so
>you could actually see the other program.  HyperCard 2.0 doesn't appear 
>to do this which is a pain when you have a small screen.  Any suggestions
>on this?

The basic idea you need is "the suspended", a new 2.0 global property.
Under 2.0, the suspended is set to true whenever HyperCard is in the
background. A basic handler would be

  on idle
    if the suspended is true then hide card window
    else show card window
  end idle

Of course, you may want to get fancier (take multiple windows into account,
refrain from hiding if the right edge of the window is far enough over to
expose the Finder's icon row, etc.). But this gives the general idea.
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