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From: ireland@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: dual scrolling fields
Message-ID: <3774@ac.dal.ca>
Date: 26 Feb 91 03:20:58 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.055526.29906@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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Organisation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1991Feb25.055526.29906@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, mmoss@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Matthew D Moss) writes:
> I need to make a question I recently posted more specific.
> 
> Before I asked about how to create dual scrolling fields. (Sorry, I
> can't include the previous article). I couldn't set it up so that
> two fields would scroll based upon one's scroll bar (and I tried
> an on idle script. It doesn't accomplishg what I want).
> 
> I need this for the first Hypercard, not 2.0, since I have not 
> upgraded yet.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Matthew Moss		mmoss@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu
> 
> "We've all gotta jump, so I'm learning to fly!" - EL&P
If you're going to be updating to HC 2.0 soon then it might be more trouble
than its worth to implement dual scrolling fields in HC 1.2 (theres a
demonstration of how to do them in HC 2.0 in the Power Tools stack if I
remember correctly). There is an XCMD that facilitates multiple scrolling
fields in HC 1.0 but I can't remember the name of it. There are multiple
ways of doing it with scripts alone.  Chapter 3 of "Tricks of the HyperTalk
Masters" by The Waite Group shows how to do it, as does Danny Goodman in
"The HyperCard Handbook 1.2 Upgrade Kit" (I suspect its also in the later
editions of his HyperCard books as well).

Hope this helps.   Keith Conover  ireland@ac.dal.ca