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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Button Name
Message-ID: <39723@bbn.COM>
Date: 10 May 89 14:06:38 GMT
References: <6035@brunix.UUCP>
Sender: news@bbn.COM
Reply-To: mesard@BBN.COM (Wayne Mesard)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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In article <6035@brunix.UUCP> cs004004@cslab9d.UUCP (Jon Feinberg) writes:
>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

>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.

The conditional line should read:

   if short name of me is "ShowIt" then
      ^^^^^

When a script isn't behaving as expected, and you're dealing with a
function result, put it into the message box to make sure it's really
returning what you you think it should (i.e. "put the name of me").

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