Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!apple!dan
From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: copying foregrounds and bug with long button names
Keywords: foreground, deletable, property, long names
Message-ID: <16953@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 88 06:28:39 GMT
References: <5694@june.cs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: dan@apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <5694@june.cs.washington.edu> moore@june.cs.washington.edu (Charles Moore) writes:
>(1) Is there a way to copy the entire foreground of a card to another card
>without simultaneously copying the state of the "deletable" property?
>
>(2) If not, is there a way to change the "deletable" property from within a
>script?  (It seems like there ought to be.)
>
>(3) If not, is there a fix to the referring-to-long-named-buttons bug?  For
>various reasons that I won't go into, referring to the button by it's i.d.
>number or button number is not a solution. 
>
>     I'm using Hypercard version 1.0.1 on a Macintosh SE with 1 megabyte of

HyperCard 1.2 and later versions support a cantDelete property for cards
that CAN be set by scripts.  There was not way to do this scriptably
with 1.0.

Fields, cards, stacks, and buttons should all have names 31 characters
or shorter in length.

Dan Allen
Apple Computer