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From: ollef@osiris.sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Copying a background (hacker's tip & request for feature)
Message-ID: <2667@osiris.sics.se>
Date: 9 May 89 01:12:40 GMT
References: <39528@bbn.COM> <30160@apple.Apple.COM> <445@nyevax.CAS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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In article <445@nyevax.CAS.ORST.EDU> johnsot@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Tim G. Johnson) writes:
>Dan, you are wrong about this being a very rare need. I have needed the
>ability to copy a background on several different occasions>
>So I would like to echo the request:
>
>>>B) The background of a card should be a set'able property of that card.
>>>   Thus,
>>>             set background of this card to "MyOtherBg"
>

I agree. I find the bkgnds very hard to deal with. This boils down to the fact
that there's no simple way to copy, cut and paste them.

       Please put this feature into 2.0 !

 In my nightmares I have hundreds of cards with wrong background. This also
happens to me when I'm awake.

          /Olle



PS. I don't think a bkgnd could be a set'able property because a bkgnd is an
object. I want commands that behaves like this:


  Change this bkgnd to AnotherBackground  --puts all cards in this bkgnd into
                                          --bkgnd AnotherBackground

  Change bkgnd of MyCard to AnotherBackground --as above but just for MyCard

  Copy bkgnd AnotherBackground

  Paste bkgnd into MyBkgnd  --changes MyBkgnd to a copy of AnotherBkgnd
  
  Paste bkgnd into MyCard   --changes bkgnd of MyCard to a copy of AnotherBkgnd