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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: ComputerWorld article on HyperCard...
Message-ID: <27494@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 89 21:58:56 GMT
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>In article <4508@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ns@cat.cmu.edu (Nicholas Spies) writes:
>It can also be argued that the contents of background fields should belong
>to the fields rather than each card: this would make building an index much
>less of a chore than now. I agree that the metaphor of background fields and
>buttons is not symmetrical, and this has been noted by several people here
>a while ago and should be corrected by adding:
>(1) background fields whose text and scroll does not change from card to card
>(2) background buttons whose state does change from card to card
>...while keeping the present types.

Supercard has added a background field type called "common", which does just
that. It will make some of my stacks immensely easier to write.

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