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From: langford@reed.UUCP (Chris Langford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: How about static fields???
Message-ID: <11697@reed.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 89 19:40:30 GMT
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Reply-To: langford@reed.UUCP (Chris Langford)
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One solution I have been using is sort of a hack also, but it works
well for information that has to be the same for every card.  There are
a couple of XCMDs around that manipulate PICT resources.  One converts
the clipboard to a PICT, the other shows the PICT on the screen.
I chose the marquee tool, and selected the part of the screen where I
had typed the text.  Then I used the clipToPict XCMD to convert the
clipboard to a PICT, then used the showPICT XCMD to show it on the screen.

The XCMD and the PICT are attached to the stack, so it is available from
all the cards.  The only problem is that you have to click on the screen
to have the PICT go away, but the click doesn't make anything else happen.
It works well enough, but only if the amount of text fits on one screen.
There is still a need for scrolling static fields!

-- 
Chris Langford  {backbone}!tektronix!reed!langford -or- langford@reed.bitnet
"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and
I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life -- so I became a scientist.
This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." -Matt Cartmill-