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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!uniwa!nfm
- From: spw@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Steven P Wilkinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: Text in Background Fields
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 13:14:11 +0800
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- Chris Ellens (ellens@bnr.ca) wrote:
- : I'm sure there's a simple answer to this but I'm stumped. How can I create
- : a field in the background and enter text into it? I can create the field
- : ok, and I can enter text into it at the card layer, but if I then set the
- : "shared text" property, all of the text disappears. I can't enter the text
- : at the background layer at all (I don't get the I-beam cursor). Cutting the
- : field from a card and pasting to the background also deleted all of the
- : text.
- :
- : Chris Ellens ellens@bnr.ca
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- I just did this to be absolutely sure.
- 1. Create the background field.
- 2. Make it a shred text field.
- 3. Choose the browse tool.
- 4. Choose "background" from the Edit menu.(the menu bar is now striped)
- 5. Click in the field and type away.
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- Steve Wilkinson
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