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From: rhutchin@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Hypertalk questions for gurus...
Message-ID: <9101292006.aa01354@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Date: 30 Jan 91 04:10:46 GMT
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OK, I must confess that I consider myself somewhat of a guru, but I have a
few questions for REAL HyperCard gurus:

1) I'm building a big help stack for something (I'm not supposed to say what).
   So I have a table of contents set up with "Chapter" names in one field.
   When the user clicks on a line that has the name of the chapter, it
   sets the visible of the appropriate field that contains the names of
   "sections" in the chapter.  But I'd like to keep the chapter name hilighted
   in when I write into other fields, so the user can see how they got where
   they are. So here's what the problem boils down to:  How can I write text
   into a field while NOT altering the selected text in another field?

2) "Picture" is a real cool XCMD, except for 1 thing.  I am having problems
   getting a consistent "palette" (Color QuickDraw, not HyperCard meaning).
   For instance, I have a grey-scale PICT2 of a particular piece of hardware
   I am trying to put in a "rect" window, so I can throw some buttons below
   it and then the user thinks they are clicking different areas of the
   hardware.  But in moving the stack between my Mac II and a coworker's
   IIx and IIcx, I have found the palette chosen for displaying the picture
   sometimes is right, and sometimes is VERY wrong.  Mainly, it is wrong
   when the card is not on the screen with the menu bar, but I think it's
   been wrong other times too (although I may be wrong on this one).

3) Does anyone know of a utility to scan DIRECTLY onto a card?  We're dealing
   with a Microtek 300GS, although I may get a handheld for the HyperCard
   scans that must be done?

Thank you very much for any help you might be able to provide.

Richard B. Hutchings
Dept of Info and Comp Sci, UC Irvine

(This post dedicated to our troops fighting in the gulf.  God bless them.)