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From: gandalf@apple.com (Martin Gannholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Changing field font in HC 2.0
Message-ID: <11492@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Dec 90 18:39:42 GMT
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References:<26790@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <2870@polari.UUCP>

In article <2870@polari.UUCP> smelly@polari.UUCP (Tom Benedict) writes:
> Your problem with fonts not sticking in stacks after compaction is not a
> new one.  It happened a lot with the beta releases of HC2.0
> First , make sure you have v 2.0 or v2.0v2 of HC
> Second, hold the option key down whilie compacting, That will rebuild the
> stacks font tables.

Actually, the key combination to hold down is cmd-option, and you need to 
hold it down during the whole compaction. Some stacks got a corrupted font 
table from a bug in 2.0, and doing the aforementioned will rebuild the 
font table. You only need to do this once.

Martin Gannholm
HyperCard 2.0 Engineer
Apple Computer

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