krantz@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Gabriel Krantz ) (04/05/91)
I am developing a user interface in HyperCard 2.0 and am creating buttons in my scripts using the menu command "New Button." Because the new button has the highest card button number, I figure that after selecting the New Button with the button tool, one send farther command will push it behind the button which formerly had the highest card button number. However, this does not appear to be the case: for one card it works fine, but for another card two send farther commands are required -- the first one apparently does absolutely nothing. Does anyone know the cause of this problem or has anyone encountered a similar situation in HyperCard? I regularly read comp.sys.mac.hypercard but have never seen such a problem mentioned. Please mail responses to me at krantz@eniac.seas.upenn.edu. Thank you Gabriel Krantz
essam@gagme.chi.il.us (Essam Khairullah) (04/06/91)
In article <40500@netnews.upenn.edu> krantz@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Gabriel Krantz ) writes: >I figure that after selecting the New Button with the button tool, >one send farther command will push it behind the button which >formerly had the highest card button number. However, this does >not appear to be the case: for one card it works fine, but for >another card two send farther commands are required -- the first >one apparently does absolutely nothing. > >Thank you >Gabriel Krantz I believe that the problem is that send farther also includes card fields it its list of items that it will consider to be behind the current button. Thus if you have a button as the first item on the card then a field then another button, send farther will send the top button below the field but higher than the first button. I hope this shed some light on the subject :^) --Essam -- Essam Badi' Abu Khalil Khairullah Al-Madani Al-Hussain essam@gagme.chi.il.us I don't got no fancy signature, but it is long!