[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] changing the order of backgrounds, which one shows first

lyons@gw.scri.fsu.edu ("Jim Lyons") (01/15/91)

In article <2241@beguine.UUCP> mikef@samba.acs.unc.edu (Michael Freedburg) 
writes:
> What is the easiest way for me to reorder the backgrounds??

The is no inherent order to backgrounds in a stack, just the cards. You 
need to make the card you want to appear first be the first card of the 
stack. To do this, cut the card and go to the first card of the stack and 
do paste card; this will make it the second card. Now cut the first card 
and paste it wherever it goes. If your need to reorder the stack is more 
complicated than this, you may want to add a background field for sequence 
number; after entering the correct sequence numbers, sort the cards on 
this field. Hope this helps.

Jim Lyons
lyons@gw.scri.fsu.edu

dlugose@uncecs.edu (Dan Dlugose) (01/22/91)

   Backgrounds don't really have orders.  Cards do.  If you move the card of
the first background that you want to appear so that it is the first card,
that begins the solution to your problem, but the other cards that shared that
background would not have been moved.
   Of course you can't make a card into the first card in one step.  Cut the
card, go first, paste card.  It is now the second card.  Go first, cut card,
put that one where you want it.  You now have the desired first card.  (A
paste card always places a card after the card you're looking at; a paste
while looking at the last card creates a new last card.)
   To move several cards from the same background, I think this will work:
Create a new background field on all backgrounds with the same field name.
For contents place a, b, c .. according to the order you would like the cards
to be in.  Then use the command "sort by field "sort" ".
-- 
Dan Dlugose
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