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From: emcguire@ccad.uiowa.edu (Ed McGuire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: self-knowing scripts possible?
Keywords: script identity
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.164956.22659@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 91 16:49:56 GMT
Organization: Sequential Stream_Of_Consciousness
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The user interface for a card I'm writing dynamically arranges various
buttons on the card.  Thus, a button may be anywhere on the card when
it is pressed.  A button unhides an associated field.  I want the field
to appear below the button.  That's the part that has me stumped.

If the button script could learn the identity of the button that has it,
this would be easy.  I could then get the position of the button.  I
could even write the code for displaying the field in the card instead
of duplicating it in each button, thus saving a lot of code duplication.

Is there some means for a script to learn the identify of its holder
button, field, card, whatever?  Is there another approach I have not
considered?  I'd be grateful for either HC1 or HC2 ideas.
-- 
peace.  -- Ed
"Over here, Bones!  This man's dying!"
"Damn it, Jim!  I'm a doctor, not a . . .  What did you say?"