pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (05/25/90)
In article <41331@apple.Apple.COM>, baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum) writes: > [] >>In article <May.23.23.40.00.1990.20739@paul.rutgers.edu> emuleomo@paul.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) writes: >>Hi, >>Recently, I had to move a group of grcs right by 10 pixels. >>So, after musing over the problem, I was forced to write code like >>Any hope that SuperTalk/HyperTalk will be upgraded to do stuff like this?? > > Steve Dragza of Analytix (& Developers Stack fame) is selling a product > that might let you do things like that. It puts up a scrolling list of > objects & properties & lets you change groups at a time. > > -- > baum@apple.com (408)974-3385 > {decwrl,hplabs}!amdahl!apple!baum My stack Penguin Utilities (available at sumex with the rest of the HyperCard stuff) will do this as well. Basically it looks around for all the objects on the card and displays a list of them. You can select one or more, then you can select 1 of 14 functions to perform on the group. The functions range from the simple (hide and show)) to the difficult (change text attributes for buttons). Something I use a lot is the function that allows you to muve groups of objects to/from the background/card layer. I always put them in the wrong place the first time. It can also align objects horizontally or vertically as well as space them regularly, which is really nice if you are trying to create a grid-effect with objects. Penguin Utilities works its magic by creating temporary scripts in the background script area, running them, then erasing them. It has to do this because the main script seems to be too large to put in the Home stack script (at least on a one meg machine - I haven't tried it since I moved to a 5 meg SE/30). As an aside, Penguin Utilities is shareware, and I recently received a check for $30 (for two copies) from Carnegie Mellon University. Since it was a standard invoice from the university, there were no names listed as to who was actually using it. So whoever you are, thank you! (It was also the first payment for Penguin Utilities that I've received so far, though it has only been out a couple of months for people to try out). If anyone has any suggestions for functions to add to Penguin Utilities, please email me and I will see if I can putthem into the next version, which will be a bit snazzier. later-------------ace -- Adam C. Engst pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "I ain't worried and I ain't scurried and I'm having a good time" -Paul Simon