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From: martin@m2.csc.ti.com (Steven Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Button Name
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Date: 10 May 89 22:01:27 GMT
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In article <6035@brunix.UUCP> cs004004@cslab9d.UUCP (Jon Feinberg) writes:
>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

This is a common problem.  It got me for a while too.

the name of me --> 'cd button "ShowIt"'   (or whatever)

what you need is "the short name of me"  which just returns '"Showit"'

That should do it.

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