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- From: ks3y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenneth L. Simons)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: It couldn't be true
- Message-ID: <YeWhdwy00Uh_M5bGQU@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 13:56:12 GMT
- References: <geVxOTa00WBME2Tklf@andrew.cmu.edu>
- <1992Aug13.201110.20509@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Organization: Doctoral student, Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In-Reply-To: <1992Aug13.201110.20509@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- In a previous post, cmi@oracle.uucp (Eileen Riley) writes:
-
- >While Hypercard cannot dim buttons or fields, you can give the appearance
- >that they're dim.
- >
- >What it takes:
- > 1. Canvas (or a similar paint program that does logical bitmap overlays)
- > 2. Do a screenshot of the card you want.
- > 3. Paste it into Canvas, then make a box over your first bMap
- > 4. Fill is with the 50% shade.
- > 5. Select the logical AND copy mode - this will turn your grapic into
- > 50% shade.
- > 6. Paste this into a new card.
- > 7. Now when the user clicks the check btn, simply make the script
- > go to the new card.
-
- I use a similar approach where I paste the greyed-out button in the
- background picture. I have the regular button on top. I hide the
- button when I want it to be greyed out. This way you don't have to make
- a separate card. If you do this, you probably want to "show" the button
- in an "on openStack" handler in the stack script.
-
- - Ken
-