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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Simulating arrays (Of tickboxes)
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Date: 7 May 91 01:37:40 GMT
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Sorry if this has been covered before... I have only just discovered
this newsgroup and my news-site doesn't keep much in the way of back-issues
on our overcrowded discs!

I have a problem. I need an array of tickboxes; the application is a database
of my local Scout Troop. I (want to) have a card for each boy, on which
there will be a tickbox (`Auto-hilite Checkbox') for each of around a
hundred badgework items completed.

What I really *want* is a background checkbox whose high-light is stored
on a per card basis, much like the contents of a text-field. Also it would
be really good to have an array of boxes instead of defining each individually;
clearly this is not available (or is my version out of date? - is there a
patch), but a good compromise would at least be to have scripts associated
with the background, not with thousands of duplicate card buttons, which
I am currently using as an interim solution and which has completely filled
the hard disc...

Any suggestions? Has anyone already solved this?
Thanks,

Greg Harewood
PCT501%saturn@uk.ac.ukc   ,     gjh@uk.ac.ukc