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From: ralph@world.std.com (Ralph Lombreglia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Q: replacing the selection on a button click ?
Summary: Highliting buttons kill text selections.
Keywords: hilite, buttons, selection, text, fields, click
Message-ID: <1991Jan6.043550.5797@world.std.com>
Date: 6 Jan 91 04:35:50 GMT
References: <1991Jan5.232644.29647@csn.org>
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Lines: 18

From article #2842:
>The problem is as soon as the user clicks on the button,
>"the selection" goes away...

Buttons which "hilite" when clicked will kill text selection in
HyperCard.  It's something many people thought might be corrected in
v.2.0, but it wasn't.  Set the "autohilite" of the buttons in question
to false; they won't give you any visual feedback when you click on
them, but they won't kill your text selections, either.  You could
give a little feedback to the user by setting the cursor to "watch"
(the wristwatch), which is especially effective on slower Macintoshes.

>Why is the sky blue?

Because.

Ralph Lombreglia
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