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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Greying out things
Summary: grayed Chicago font
Keywords: Thanks HC Engies
Message-ID: <47422@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 17 Dec 90 04:51:07 GMT
References: <2180@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <2180@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> anthony@cs.adelaide.edu.au
(Anthony Dunstan) writes:
>I have a need to grey out text,
>I also would like to grey out objects (entire fields, buttons, etc).
>But I have a feeling that HyperCard can't.

At the end of this message is a binhexed file which contains a
grayed-out Chicago font. Use it in good health. (To change a button's
font, do    set the textFont to "Chicago Hollow"   .)

If you want to gray out entire objects, probably the easiest way to fake
it is to draw the grayed object on the card or background picture, then
show or hide your object as needed. When the field or other object is
hidden, the painted gray version will show, and it will look as though
the object has been grayed out.

>    To HyperCard Engineers: are there any future plans
>to improve HyperCard's find command?
>    To Netters: are there ANY alternatives to HyperCard's
>find command? ie: XCMDS, XFCNS, and other assorted grotty code?

What exactly are you looking to do that the find command doesn't provide?
Do you want greater speed on large stacks, boolean (and/or/but not) searches,
or what? (You can do quite a few interesting things with HC 2.0's "mark
cards" command....)

Following is the font "Chicago Hollow". To use, pull it into a text file,
unbinhex it, then unstuff the result.

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