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From: nvi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypercard ideas
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Date: 20 Dec 90 15:57:59 GMT
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> > Standard highlighting behavior of buttons.
> 
> Wht do you mean?

Several people have asked this in mail, so I'll explain here.  Go into
any application that uses the standard CDEF for radio buttons or
checkboxes.  Click on one of them and hold the button down.  The
outline of the button becomes two pixels rather than one, while the
actual state indicator is not changed.  The "you're changing me"
indication is orthogonal to the "what's my state" indication.

Now do the same thing in Hypercard and cringe at the use of the same
mechanism for both.  I personally find Hypercards treatment of radio
buttons and checkboxes to be very disconcerting.

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