Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!mailrus!sharkey!oxtrap!sendai!rich From: rich@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Copying a background Message-ID: Date: 11 May 89 15:39:43 GMT References: <39528@bbn.COM> <30160@apple.Apple.COM> <445@nyevax.CAS.ORST.EDU> <2667@osiris.sics.se> Sender: rich@sendai.UUCP Reply-To: rich@sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us Organization: Digital Works, Ltd. - Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 12 In-reply-to: ollef@osiris.sics.se's message of 9 May 89 01:12:40 GMT You know, I really can't imagine why I'd want to do this? Are you folks using backgrounds with no fields or buttons? If your backgrounds *have* fields, how do you expect them to be translated into the new background, short of wiping them all clean? If you are really working with empty backgrounds (ie, paint only), then maybe a more useful tool would be a rectangle select that can pick cut/paste multiple combinations of buttons/fields from card to card. This way you could copy the entire non-background part of a card onto a new card with a presumably different background. -- rich.