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From: syap@ur-tut.UUCP (James Fitzwilliam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Suggested improvements in HyperCard (long)
Message-ID: <994@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 20:05:03 GMT
References: <7019@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: syap@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (James Fitzwilliam)
Organization: Gadgetland USA
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> Edward Moy (edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu) writes:


> 12) HyperCard doesn't work well with desk accessories.  Cutting and pasting
> between DAs and HC is tedious, because you either have to close the DA window
> each time, or use the trick I discovered, where you have the message box
> displayed, and you click on the message box titlebar to activate HC, with
> the DA window still visible.  Why now just allow clicking on the card to
> activate HC, but still leave it behind any DA window?

I found a fix for this in an Fkey available on sumex which sends the current
active window to rear.  This at least enabled me to use MockWrite-style
one-window word processing DAs; hitting the Fkey would hide the DA, allowing
a paste, and re-selecting the DA from the apple menu would bring it forward
again.  I think the sumex file is called WINDOW-FKEYS or something similar.

If you're having trouble with ftp, I can try mailing, but our mail server
is extremely buggy.

I hadn't found the menubar trick; at least the Fkey keeps your mouse from
wearing a rut in your desk during repeated cut/pastes.  Hopefully in a
future version clicking on HC will be supported.

					James


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