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From: gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: a new button is called "New Button"
Message-ID: <7698@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 90 19:04:23 GMT
References: <10752@june.cs.washington.edu> <17048@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: York University   Department of Philosophy
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rieman@boulder.Colorado.EDU (John Rieman) writes:

| In article <10752@june.cs.washington.edu> moore@cs.washington.edu (Charles Moore) writes:
| >In article <46@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, woodard@troll.sun.com (Mike &) writes:
| >> 
| >> Also, is there a way to specify a newly created object?
| >> How can I name, or otherwise talk about something thats
| >> brand new? ...
| >
| >When you create a new button it's name is initially set to "New Button".
| >Thus, the command you want is:
| >
| >set the name of button "New Button" to "junk"
| > ...

| Safer is:

|   set the name of card button the number of card buttons to "junk"

How about:

set the name of last cd btn to junk

nrg
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