Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!t-jacobs
From: t-jacobs@wasatch.UUCP (Tony Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: How about static fields???
Message-ID: <1021@wasatch.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 89 06:00:31 GMT
References: <979@wasatch.UUCP> <69824GAB100@PSUVM>
Reply-To: t-jacobs@wasatch.utah.edu.UUCP (Tony Jacobs)
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <69824GAB100@PSUVM> GAB100@PSUVM.BITNET (George A. Brownfield) writes:
>In article <979@wasatch.UUCP>, t-jacobs@wasatch.UUCP (Tony Jacobs) says:
>>I am always running into the need for static text fields on backgrounds.  By

>     How hard is it to use the text tool under the paint tools menu?
>James D. Maloy, PSU Class of '87


Three problems with this technique. 1) It is slower than "put mytext into
field" and 2) you can't read the text! (Unless you have an Optical Character
Recognition XCMD handy) 3) I may want the text to be scrollable.

There are actually many other reasons but I won't get into them.

-- 
Tony Jacobs * Center for Engineering Design * U of U * t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu