[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] Outliner mode text fields?

kenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein) (03/08/91)

  I have a stack which I use to keep notes.  I would find it _extremely_
useful to be have outliner functionality: collapsing a paragraph to a
single line for summary view, and expanding it for a detailed view.  The
text of a collapsed item should stay in the text field (logically if not
physically), but hidden from view.

  The problem here is that I _don't_ want to hack up something that uses
the current line and searches for a card to display, or something like
that.  It's too intrusive.  Sticky buttons and windoids... I dunno; I
haven't worked with them, but it sounds clunky.  If I could get MindWrite
to work with HyperCard text fields, I think I'd be in heaven :-).

  I'm desperate: does anybody know of any way to do this?  
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/kenw

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