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From: abdenour@mist.cs.orst.edu (Abdennour A. MOUSSAOUI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Backgrounds, sub (super backgrounds)
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Date: 13 Mar 90 08:42:39 GMT
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Reply-To: abdenour@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Abdennour A. MOUSSAOUI)
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I am new to hypercard programming. and I have some questions.
Is it possible to have two backgrounds in one stack that have common
things between them and also different things also.
Let me explain, let us say that I have 100 cards all sharing the same
background (fields,buttons, icons,drawings) plus that 10 of these 100
cards also share in addition other things(buttons,fields, ..) between
these 10 cards.
is it possible to define one background in terms of another?
currently I only know how to define a background from scratch.
I mean, If I have a backgound that has a,b,c can I define another
that have a,b,c plus d,e,f (like a super set)?
I can go to each of these 10(could be more) cards and add to each one
the extra things, but it is cumbersome and also hard to position the fields,
buttons, icons in the exact position in each card.

So, if oyu understand my question and have an answer for it, then
please post it? 

thank you!
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