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From: ns@CAT.CMU.EDU (Nicholas Spies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: HyperCard feature
Message-ID: <702@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: 23 Jan 88 06:29:38 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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Keywords: graphics field

A suggestion for another HyperCard object: graphics fields.

If backgrounds were retained as they are now but all foreground ("card")
graphics were drawn on graphics fields that could be moved around, resized,
made opaque or transparent, copied, pasted, etc HyperCard would even be
MORE fun to work with. Compatibility with current stacks could be maintained
by automatically opening them with one card-sized graphic field per card
containing the current foreground graphics.

Graphics fields would greatly simplify layout and animation and would be
consistant with the object-oriented flavor of the HyperCard evironment.

Nick Spies
Center for Design
of Educational Computing
Carnegie Mellon University