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From: jkm@linus.UUCP (Jonathan K. Millen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: ComputerWorld article on HyperCard...
Message-ID: <46208@linus.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 89 14:00:19 GMT
References: <5966@bsu-cs.UUCP> <990@taurus.BITNET>
Reply-To: jkm@faron.UUCP (Jonathan K. Millen)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA
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In article <990@taurus.BITNET> <shani%TAURUS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> writes:
>In article <5966@bsu-cs.UUCP>, mithomas@bsu-cs.BITNET writes:
>>
>> So, what does everyone see the new version 2.0 doing ...

Here's one thing I think is conceptually wrong in Hypercard.
The highlighted state of a background button is common to all
cards in the background.  What I really want a background button
for is to have it show up on all cards, but highlight it on
some cards but not others.  Background fields do this right:
the field contents belong to the card.  Why not buttons?

Jon
jkm@mitre.org