fordj@yvax.byu.edu (10/29/90)
I was working on a stack this weekend and ran across a problem that I hope you can help me with. I am using HyperCard 2.0 with System (etc.) 6.0.5 on a Mac SE. The question is: How do you enter/edit text in fields which have the SharedText property set to true? The fields can be edited when SharedText is not true, but the text disappears when SharedText is set to true. I have made sure that LockText is false and I can't think of anything else to do. Anybody got a fix? (BTW I "hacked" around the problem by using Hypertext commands from the message box to put text into the field, select parts of it to format, etc. This was incredibly awkward and I'm sure that it isn't "the answer.") Please tell me what simple thing I am overlooking. :-) Email suggestions and I will summarize to the net. Thanks in advance, John Ford BYU Instructional Psychology Student fordj@yvax.byu.edu
fordj@yvax.byu.edu (10/29/90)
Argh! Of *course* the answer is that the shared text must be edited in the Background mode. Thought of this as soon as I went back to work. Can't believe I didn't think to try this before! Sorry about the bandwidth; consider my question "canceled" (How do you canel a message, anyway...:-)) John Ford fordj@yvax.byu.edu ,BYU, etc.
ftdkl@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (LaSota Daniel K) (10/30/90)
In article <1702fordj@yvax.byu.edu>, fordj@yvax.byu.edu writes... > >I was working on a stack this weekend and ran across a problem that I hope you >can help me with. I am using HyperCard 2.0 with System (etc.) 6.0.5 on a Mac >SE. The question is: How do you enter/edit text in fields which have the >SharedText property set to true? > >The fields can be edited when SharedText is not true, but the text disappears >when SharedText is set to true. I have made sure that LockText is false and I >can't think of anything else to do. Anybody got a fix? > >(BTW I "hacked" around the problem by using Hypertext commands from the message >box to put text into the field, select parts of it to format, etc. This was >incredibly awkward and I'm sure that it isn't "the answer.") > >Please tell me what simple thing I am overlooking. :-) Email suggestions and I >will summarize to the net. > When you enter text into Shared background fields you must be working in the background. In other words those tire tracks have to be on the menuBar. I have heard local experts call them huis (hoo-EEEs). What do other people call them? Dan LaSota ftdkl@acad3.fai.alaska.edu