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Subject: Re: How to visually "disable" a button?
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In article <10793@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>, jacks@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jack Slingerland) writes...
> 
>I am using HyperCard 2.0v2.  I want to "gray out" some buttons when they
>are not appropriate.  I could make a separate icon that shows gray to
>use when the button is not available and then hiding one icon and showing
>the other.  This seems unnecessarily heavy-handed.

In HC 2, you can say "set the icon of btn btnName to iconName" -- no need
to show or hide anything.  As far as creating greyed out buttons, the
ResEdit paint can tool works wonders -- much better than FatBits editing.
Icons only take up 128 bytes; the effect on stack size is small compared 
to creating buttons or fields.   -- Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)