Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!uva!borton
From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Faster Button
Message-ID: <547@uva.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 15:34:47 GMT
References: <70621@sun.uucp> <1482@pur-phy>
Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <1482@pur-phy> cca@pur-phy (Charles C. Allen) writes:
>    *	The mouseUp handler is still present in every button that uses
>	this.  Multiply by a couple of hundred cards with
>	approximately 15 card buttons of this "class" (no they can't
>	be background buttons).  I want the script for those buttons
>	in ONE place, not 3000.

It's not too hard to create a script that gets a script from another "source"
button and puts it into all the buttons on x cards.  Syntax is a bit fuzzy
off the top of my head, but something like this:

on mouseUp
  put the script of card button "source" into theSourceScript
  repeat with bgs = <bg 1> to <bg n>
    repeat with buttonNo = <button 1> to <button n>
      put theSourceScript into the script of button buttonNo
    end repeat
  end repeat
end mouseUp

I had this same problem (already with 15 buttons) and did it this way a few
months back...

-cbb
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Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS