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From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: non-text in a field
Message-ID: <0WzCABy00V05A2C1gY@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 7 Aug 88 23:09:01 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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>> Is is possible to enter non-text into a field?  Specifically, I
>> wish to put some sort of Macpaint picture or an icon into a field then
>> maybe delete it from a field and move it to another.

No can do.  Fields can <currently> only contain 29,997 characters of text of
only one font/size/style.

Your best bet is to define a region on the card as being your picture area
[This is completely for the sake of ease of scripting], and then use doMenu
copy and doMenu paste picture to copy/paste pictures in and out of the region.
Be careful when pasting-- Hypercard has a Paste Picture/Paste Text menu option
depending on the type of the clipboard.....  if you do the wrong one at the
wrong time (paste text when the clip holds a picture), your script will die
with a 'menu option not found' error.  I ran into this and fixed it by writing
an XFCN that checks the type of the clipboard.

b.bum
wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu