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From: robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: How to dismiss a PICT resource shown with "picture" command?
Keywords: picture PICT mouseDownInPicture
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.215110.13811@informix.com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 21:51:10 GMT
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In article <1991Apr3.130652.12996@world.std.com> ralph@world.std.com (Ralph Lombreglia) writes:
>
>I'm displaying some PICT resources in xwindows using the "picture"
>xcmd built into 2.0.  I want the PICTs displayed in "rect" windows
>which don't have title bars and (thus no go-away boxes), and so I'm
>using a mouseDownInPicture handler to dismiss the windows.  If I have
>only one xwindow open, and I know the name, it's no problem:
>
>    on mouseDownInPicture
>       close window <windowname>
>
>But if I have more than one window, and use a window's name as an
>argument without also specifying the user's click location (which of
>course I don't know), nothing happens:
>
>    on mouseDownInPicture "<windowname>"
>       close window <windowname>
>
>Any suggestions on how to script this correctly?

You're very close, I think. Just specify a generic argument for the
mouseDownInPicture function, like this:

    on mouseDownInPicture anyWindow
       close window anyWindow
 
Don't specify an actual window name for "anyWindow".

I think that's the way it works.      


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