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- From: jdwcs@cs.utexas.edu (Joe David Warrington)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: HYPERCARD NOVICE NEEDS HELP
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 21:52:54 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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-
- Hi Everyone,
- I am new to hypercard, have a project due
- in a week, and am having problems with the basics.
- (Needless to say I am against the wall on this one)
- The problems would likely be easy for you HC gurus
- out there, but I am pulling my hair out with this stuff.
-
- PROBLEM 1) I need to hide/show some buttons depending
- on whether there are any characters in two fields.
- Both of the fields and the buttons are on the same card
- which has a painted in background. I have tried many
- variations using on keyDown but have had little success.
- The best results make the buttons appear and disappear,
- but will place only the first character in the field. If I
- get the script to place all the characters (entered by
- keyboard) into the filed then the buttons will not disappear.
-
- PROBLEM 2) I am trying to develop a card with a scrolling
- field that shows a record field (from a database) broken
- up by its fields (the record). The problem is that I need
- verticle lines to separate the record fields located within
- the hypercard field. I tried putting the hypercard field
- in the background and drawing the vertical bars on the card,
- but then the scrolling field acted as if it were painted
- in the card (it had no functionality). I also thought about
- overlapping several scrolling hypercard fields (one for each
- record field) but could not figure out how to get them to
- scroll in unison or to highlight the same line in all the
- fields when I click on one.
-
- PROBLEM 3) I need to change the cursor from the pointing
- finger to an arrow.
-
-
- I am sure to have many more problems as this program develops
- during the next week, but solving these three problems will
- at least get me started. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-
- THANKS
- Joe
- jdwcs@cs.utexas.edu
-