Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!lampert
From: lampert@yale.UUCP (Robin Lampert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: freezing or disabling buttons
Keywords: buttons disabled quickly
Message-ID: <31622@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 16:53:26 GMT
Organization: Yale University, New Haven, CT
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I'm working on a hypercard stack.  It has (background) buttons which pop
up (background) fields, and then clicking on the field makes it go away.
Unfortunately, there are also some transparent card buttons which
connect to other cards which overlap with the fields.  So, when the user
clicks on the field in a spot which happens to also have one of these
transparent buttons there, the user ends up on a different card, instead
of simply getting rid of the field.  I'd like to fix it so that this
doesn't happen.

I'd like to be able to freeze/unfreeze all the card buttons (but not the
background buttons) in a single command or very short sequence.
(Disabling all the card buttons one at a time in a loop takes too much
time.)

Does anyone know how to do this?  or have any other possibly useful
suggestions?

-- 
-Robin Lampert

lampert@cs.yale.edu