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From: taylorj@byuvax.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: How about static fields???
Message-ID: <392taylorj@byuvax.bitnet>
Date: 5 Feb 89 04:54:47 GMT
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Whoah, wait a minute!  Am I missing something here?

Annie Fetter in <2396@babylon.cs.swarthmore.edu> says she prefers field text to
paint text because it looks better.  Unless I am sorely mistaken (notice the
"escape clause" brought about by "net-foot-in-mouth paranoia"?), they're both
exactly the same.  In fact, painted text is usually safer than field text
because it won't be screwed up if you run your stack on a different system
which doesn't contain the fonts you use.  Whenever I want my text to look good
no matter who's Mac it's running on, I paint it.  (Unless there's a lot of it;
in which case I make sure to install the appropriate fonts in my stack with
Font/DA Mover.)

Jim Taylor
Microcomputer Support for Curriculum, Brigham Young University
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