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From: cs004004@brunix (Jon Feinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Button Name
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Date: 10 May 89 04:13:41 GMT
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Reply-To: cs004004@cslab9d.UUCP (Jon Feinberg)
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
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Summary:Help!

I am having a rather frustrating problem... the solution is probably
obvious, so please enlighten me.
I am simply trying to have a button modify its own name like so:

on mouseUp
   if name of me is "ShowIt" then
     set name of me to "HideIt"
   else
     set name of me to "ShowIt"
   end if      
end mouseUp

I have tried infinite variations on this theme, including  
having the button refer to itself by id, etc.

Furthermore, if I have the button start out named "HideIt," the first
mouseUp sent to it will indeed change the name to "ShowIt," but
subsequent presses are utterly ineffectual.

I have written some lovely and funky scripts, but this sucker ne marche pas.
Help!!

Jonathan Feinberg
cs004004@pebbles.cs.brown.edu