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- From: drennan@acfcluster.nyu.edu (XIXAX)
- Subject: Re: It couldn't be true
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.092822.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu>
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- Organization: New York University
- References: <geVxOTa00WBME2Tklf@andrew.cmu.edu> <jpugh-120892174732@90.20.3.213>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:28:22 GMT
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- In article <jpugh-120892174732@90.20.3.213>, jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh) writes:
- > In article <geVxOTa00WBME2Tklf@andrew.cmu.edu>, "George J. Baxter"
- > <gb2a+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
- >>
- >> Yo World:
- >> It couldn't be true that I cannot disable buttons in Hypercard, is
- >> it? I have a check box that I want to be able to activate or deactivate
- >> various options... but so far, I can't figure out how to dim out those
- >> options. I'd like to be able to do this with both buttons and fields,
- >> but I'd settle for just buttons.
- >
- > You are correct, you can't disable buttons or fields.
- >
- > Instead, I would draw the button disabled exactly under the real button.
- > Show it when it is enabled, hide it when it is disabled.
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- First off, SuperCard allows you to disable buttons, items and menus...
- In Hypercard, you might want to toggle the icon with a greyed out version (you
- can do this in the icon editor) ... an "if the icon of me = [id#]" staatement
- would then deal with the disabled-ness of the button...
- --
- Dany
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