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From: czei@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Adding card with different background to the beginning of the stack
Keywords: stack,new background, heterogenous stacks
Message-ID: <1542@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 89 15:22:59 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
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I'm designing a message stack, and now would like to modify
the message reading card design to be a message posting design.
At first I thought that I could use a homogenous stack and just
put "OK" and "CANCEL" buttons over the other buttons in the
"reading" card background to make a "posting" card, but buttons
only seem to be associated with backgrounds.  Why isn't there
a card level button?  

So, if there isn't a card level button, the only way I can do this
is to make a new background.  Unfortunately, I would like this
new card background to be at the beginning of the stack, and the
doMenu "new card" method of creating a card sticks it "after" the
current card.

Isn't there an easy way of arranging the backgrounds in a heterogenous
stack?

Thanks for any pointers; working with heterogenous stacks has proved
to be one large headache in an otherwise enjoyable pasttime.

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