[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] Greying out things

anthony@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Anthony Dunstan) (12/17/90)

I have a need to grey out text,
I do apologise if this has been discussed in detail.
I also would like to grey out objects (entire fields, buttons, etc).
But I have a feeling that HyperCard can't.

I have heard rumours that one should just create a FONT
which is greyed, but I lack in both details and know-how.

Could some nice person please help me out?

ANOTHER QUESTION:
    To HyperCard Engineers: are there any future plans
to improve HyperCard's find command?
    To Netters: are there ANY alternatives to HyperCard's
find command? ie: XCMDS, XFCNS, and other assorted grotty code?

Thankyou,
    Anthony.

PS: Let's not take the INCREDIBLE support we are getting from
the HyperCard Engineers for granted in this newsgroup.
I'd like to wish all you nice HyperCard Engies a safe
and happy Christmas!
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|   Anthony Dunstan         University of Adelaide Apple Consortium     |
| A Macintosh CyberMan           anthony@cs.adelaide.edu.au             |
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jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) (12/17/90)

In article <2180@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> anthony@cs.adelaide.edu.au
(Anthony Dunstan) writes:
>I have a need to grey out text,
>I also would like to grey out objects (entire fields, buttons, etc).
>But I have a feeling that HyperCard can't.

At the end of this message is a binhexed file which contains a
grayed-out Chicago font. Use it in good health. (To change a button's
font, do    set the textFont to "Chicago Hollow"   .)

If you want to gray out entire objects, probably the easiest way to fake
it is to draw the grayed object on the card or background picture, then
show or hide your object as needed. When the field or other object is
hidden, the painted gray version will show, and it will look as though
the object has been grayed out.

>    To HyperCard Engineers: are there any future plans
>to improve HyperCard's find command?
>    To Netters: are there ANY alternatives to HyperCard's
>find command? ie: XCMDS, XFCNS, and other assorted grotty code?

What exactly are you looking to do that the find command doesn't provide?
Do you want greater speed on large stacks, boolean (and/or/but not) searches,
or what? (You can do quite a few interesting things with HC 2.0's "mark
cards" command....)

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jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) (12/17/90)

In article <47422@apple.Apple.COM>, I wrote:

>(To change a button's font, do    set the textFont to "Chicago Hollow"   .)

What I meant was    set the textFont of button "foo" to "Chicago Hollow"
Sorry about that.
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jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun) (12/18/90)

In article <2180@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> anthony@cs.adelaide.edu.au
(Anthony Dunstan) writes:
>    To HyperCard Engineers: are there any future plans
>to improve HyperCard's find command?

I don't know what future plans Claris has for HyperCard.
Just what would you like?

>I'd like to wish all you nice HyperCard Engies a safe
>and happy Christmas!

Thank you.  I wish the same for you and yours.

Kevin Calhoun
HyperCard Team
Apple Computer, Inc.

lalor@cod.NOSC.MIL (Joe Lalor) (12/18/90)

From article <47429@apple.Apple.COM>, by jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun):
> 
> In article <2180@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> anthony@cs.adelaide.edu.au
> (Anthony Dunstan) writes:
>>    To HyperCard Engineers: are there any future plans
>>to improve HyperCard's find command?
> 
> I don't know what future plans Claris has for HyperCard.
> Just what would you like?
> 
> Kevin Calhoun
> HyperCard Team
> Apple Computer, Inc.

I am getting REALLY worried about the future of HyperCard when Kevin 
responds that he doesn't "know what future plans Claris has for
HyperCard."  This tells me that the some of the Apple genius that
made HyperCard such a wonderful product did not tranfer over to
Claris when HyperCard did.  HyperCard has netted the company I work
for (SAIC in San Diego) well over a $1 million since its inception
in government contracts to develop stand alones as well as front
ends to large programs and I sense that all of this business
could be jeopardized because of HyperCard being transferred to Claris.
Did I mention that I am getting REALLY worried about the future of
Hypercard...?

There is a serious disturbance in the Force....

Say it ain't so, Kevin, say it ain't so....

JOE LALOR
lalor@nosc.mil

anthony@chook.adelaide.edu.au (Anthony Dunstan) (12/18/90)

In article <47429@apple.Apple.COM>, jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun) writes:
|> 
|> In article <2180@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> anthony@cs.adelaide.edu.au
|> (Anthony Dunstan) writes:
|> >    To HyperCard Engineers: are there any future plans
|> >to improve HyperCard's find command?
|> 
|> I don't know what future plans Claris has for HyperCard.
Does this mean that your accumulated HC knowledge and expertise
goes out the window?
John, what implications does this have w.r.t. future HC rewrites/upgrades?
It would be such a waste to have to "start again" on HC 3.0
without you and your fellow Engineer's expertise.

|> Just what would you like? [...additions to find command...]
Currently I am using specific 'hidden' cards to store all my
resources/variables and I use 'find' to retrieve/test user inputted
data. ie: I go get a variable I have stored on my variables card
by using the find command.

The problem is that HC insists on taking me to the card, this I do not want.
So I use (un)lock screen to cover it.
There is probably a MUCH better way I should be doing all of this,
but ye old deadline forces me to write grotty and quick.

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For anyone who wants a hacked Times font (size 36) which has 'most'
characters greyed out (ie: a-zA-Z0-9, etc) just save this article, use a
text editor to cut everything before the *This must be ..... binhex 4.0*
and unbinhex/uncompact it.

Use at own risk, if you want to know how I hacked this one,
e-mail me.

    Anthony.

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|   Anthony Dunstan         University of Adelaide Apple Consortium     |
| A Macintosh CyberMan           anthony@cs.adelaide.edu.au             |
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ba0k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian Patrick Arnold) (12/19/90)

Howdy,

On 17-Dec-90 in Re: Greying out things       
user Joe Lalor@cod.NOSC.MIL writes:
>I am getting REALLY worried about the future of HyperCard when Kevin 
>responds that he doesn't "know what future plans Claris has for...

I have a simple question for Mr. Lalor:

Do you honestly think Claris would take over HyperCard support and bring
in the HyperCard team if Claris *didn't* have future plans for
HyperCard?  Duhh.

Get some rest and have a very happy holiday!

- Brian