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From: chips@tekchips.TEK.COM (Chip Schnarel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Getting part of a field
Message-ID: <1853@tekchips.TEK.COM>
Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 17:13:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  3 17:13:18 1987
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References: <275@algol.sol.SPS.TRW.COM> <1482@mmm.UUCP> <370@tardis.cc.umich.edu>
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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Summary: selection lists

In article <370@tardis.cc.umich.edu>, mike@ronin.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak) writes:
> What we really need is a list object type so we can put stuff in the list
> and allow the user to select items in the list without being able to change
> the text of the list.  But we don't.
> 
> To solve this problem for in my own stacks, I set up a scrolling field with
> locked text.  Next to each line in the field, I put a little arrow button.
> 
> Michael Nowak
    
    I have built a similar interface covering each line in the scroll list
    with a button.  This looks and acts similar to, but not exactly the
    same as, a "List Manager" scroll list.  Also it is my understanding that
    the inclusion of scroll lists or selection lists will be in some future
    release of Hypercard.  In the mean time, would it be possible to program
    an XCMD to provide this functionality?

    Chip Schnarel
    Tektronix, Inc.
    chips%tektronix.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
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