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Subject: Re: Hypertalk questions for gurus...
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Date: 1 Feb 91 20:57:13 GMT
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In article <9101292006.aa01354@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU>, rhutchin@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU writes:
>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
Sorry for all of the extra