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From: rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: How to gray out buttons
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Date: 22 Feb 90 19:25:59 GMT
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In article <1990Feb19.215621.3645@agate.berkeley.edu> 
bri@garnet.berkeley.edu (Brian Reilly) writes:
>Also, can anyone describe how to simulate an inactive button with gray 
text,
>like inactive menu choices?  I have seen this somewhere before but can't
>remember it.

I used Font/DA Mover to paste a copy of Chicago into my stack, then used 
ResEdit to make every character gray, and re-named it "ChicagoGray". 
(Fontastic or any font-editing utility should work as well.) To gray out a 
button, do:
    Set the textFont of button "Foo" to ChicagoGray
To restore it:
    Set the textFont of button "Foo" to Chicago

I don't know what the legalities of posting a munged version of Apple's 
system font are; since I work for Apple, I'll be cowardly and not post my 
font. But it's not hard to make your own. A little tedious, but once it's 
done you can use it again and again.

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