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From: v216yef2@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu 	IPath: ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu!v216yef2 (Geoffrey R Wright)
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Subject: Help with MapMaker 4.5
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Date: 16 Apr 91 00:47:38 GMT
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	I would be grateful for any assistance the network could 
provide to a beginner.  
	I am trying to create a "front-end" shell for MapMaker 4.5 using
HyperCard.  What I hope this means is that users would make their
selections (what boundaries and data to map, etc) in the stack.  These
choices would be written to the clipboard and then when MapMaker was
opened it would use the commands written in the tack to produce the
appropriate map.  To be able to do this I need to know a few things:
	1) is it possible to write commands to the clipboard from
	   HyperCard and if so how do you do this?
	2) I want to have users select their options with check boxes.
	   How would I make it so that boxes were checked,
	   all of the selections would be written to one file?

	
I am not sure if any of this is clear, if it isn't please 
contact me.  Thanks, Jed Wright v216yef2@ubvms.bitnet