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From: kdmoen@watcgl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Button hilighting in HyperTalk
Message-ID: <1748@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 01:10:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: watcgl.1748
Posted: Sun Sep 13 01:10:04 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 10:56:27 EDT
Reply-To: kdmoen@watcgl.UUCP (Doug Moen)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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I'm working on a HyperCard database intended to be used by people with
no knowledge of computers or Macintoshes.  I've found that causing
buttons to highlight when the cursor moves over them makes the user
interface much more intuitive.

This turns out to be easy to do in HyperTalk.  You simply include the
following code in each button script:
	on mouseEnter
		set hilite of the target to true
	end mouseEnter

	on mouseLeave
		set hilite of the target to false
	end mouseEnter

Here's my problem.  I prefer not to edit the script of every single
button in my database to add this code.  I have tried putting the code
into the stack script, where it will be inherited by every button in
the stack.  This works, but unfortunately, it also gets inherited by fields,
which is not what I want.  Any suggestions?
-- 
Doug Moen
University of Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab
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