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From: jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: self-knowing scripts possible?
Keywords: script identity
Message-ID: <48254@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 91 19:51:48 GMT
References: <1991Jan18.164956.22659@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Jan18.164956.22659@ccad.uiowa.edu> emcguire@ccad.uiowa.edu
(Ed McGuire) writes:
>If the button script could learn the identity of the button that has it,...
>I could then get the position of the button.

>Is there some means for a script to learn the identify of its holder
>button, field, card, whatever?

Yes.  You can, for example, get 'the rect of me', to get the position
of a button whose script is executing.

Kevin Calhoun
HyperCard Team
Apple Computer, Inc.