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From: guzdial@zug.csmil.umich.edu (Mark Guzdial)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypercard Pro Wishlist
Summary: More control over field & button tools
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.011322.17783@engin.umich.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 01:13:22 GMT
References: <17537@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Sender: Mark Guzdial (guzdial@csmil.umich.edu)
Organization: Cognitive Science Machine Intelligence Laboratory, U of M.
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One of the things on my wishlist is some control over what happens
when the user is in button or field tool mode.  I don't necessarily
need all the control that SuperCard gives me (though that would
certainly be nice.)  I'd just like to catch some of the automatic
things that would be easily caught.  For example, when double-clicking
on a button or field, I'd like it if the info dialog box came up
through doing a DoMenu "Button Info" so that I could replace it with
my own dialog box if I wanted.  Unfortunately, that tie between
double-clicking and the info box is currently hard-wired, which makes
it hard to (for example) create friendlier dialogs for elementary
school students learning to program in HyperCard.
  
Mark Guzdial
guzdial@csmil.umich.edu