Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!ucsd!mvb.saic.com!ncr-sd!ncrcae!hubcap!jcocon From: jcocon@hubcap.clemson.edu (james c oconnor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Need a new type of field Message-ID: <1991Mar13.202827.4178@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 13 Mar 91 20:28:27 GMT Organization: Clemson University Lines: 19 I need a new type of hypercard 2.0 field. It needs to do the following things: 1. the value isn't saved at all (no write to disk) 2. putting into it doesn't change the current selection 3. it can be write only 4. it must appear on the host card (no xternal windows) 5. it can write over any buttons, fields, drawings behind it if that makes it faster/easier to write. Okay, guys at Apple/Claris, let me know when it is done. :) :) :) Does anyone know of an xcmd that can do something like this? I don't know if I can just draw on the card or not because of the neato things that hypercard does in the background (all the layers). Thanks for the help, and I'll thank you individually if my mailer can parse your return address. Jim