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- From: selene@carson.u.washington.edu (Selene Fisher)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: colorizeHC XCMD... userlevel, visual effects, picts?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:07:10 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- I have the dubious pleasure of trying to colorize an HC teaching stack, and I
- have run into a few unexplainables. Please excuse me if these are common
- knowledge; I looked everywhere I could think of for the answers before
- posting this. I am using HC 2.1, the XCMD itself (not John Forrest's
- stacks), System 7.0.1, Quadra 700 with 20/230, etc.
-
- Q1: Now that I have copied the XCMD into my stack (using ResCopy v.
- 4.0b17) and have added some color with "colorFill", whenever I open my
- stack, the userlevel is set to 2 and blindtyping is false. This only
- happens when I launch the stack as the first access to hypercard. It's
- fine if I come in from another stack. I have no protection on, my home
- preferences are fine, and once I bring up the message window, I can freely
- change my userlevel, etc. Does anyone recognize this problem?
-
- Q2: As J. Forrest mentions, visual effects are limited with the colorizeHC
- command. In my most recent version of his stacks (v1.1.2), he refers to a
- command "cHCvisual" which he says is supposed to do the same as "unlock
- screen with wipe left" He also says he thinks this will work. I could not
- get the "unlock screen..." to have any noticeable effect. Does anyone
- know how to get visual effects to work or if they can ever work? I'd rather
- not use the Forrest stacks, because my end user will only get confused,
- and nothing is that vital.
-
- Q3: Last question (phew). Does anyone have any pointers on how to create
- spiffy looking buttons like Bung-Dabba used in their original stack?
- I have a modest color painting program that I can't seem to generate
- enough detail with. I am also less than successful at actually using picts
- in my stack - they never seem to look right or they are the wrong size.
- Hints in this direction would also be appreciated.
-
- Thanks for the help. I'd prefer not to convert to SuperCard unless the
- overwhelming opinion is DO IT. Please respond via this net or to my email
- address below. I'm willing to summarize the solutions and post them if
- anyone is interested (besides me).
-
- Thanks again,
- Selene Fisher
-
- selene@u.washington.edu
-
-