elee6o4@jetson.uh.edu (Kelvin Chi-Keung Hui, EE Depart., U. of Houston) (08/07/90)
I'm a just a beginner for HyperCard scripting. I wonder there is any way I can disable the command-M message so that users cannot activate the message box. Or more properly, how can I check the commands such as command-H, command-F, and etc inside a script? Any help will be appreciated. Kelvin Hui elee6o4@jetson.uh.edu
kseah@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth Cheng-Lim Seah) (08/07/90)
In article <6730.26bd9aad@jetson.uh.edu> elee6o4@jetson.uh.edu (Kelvin Chi-Keung Hui, EE Depart., U. of Houston) writes: > > I'm a just a beginner for HyperCard scripting. I wonder there is any >way I can disable the command-M message so that users cannot activate the >message box. Or more properly, how can I check the commands such as command-H, >command-F, and etc inside a script? > > Any help will be appreciated. > >Kelvin Hui >elee6o4@jetson.uh.edu Try the following script... on doMenu cmd if cmd = "Message" then answer "Bleah!!" else pass doMenu end if end doMenu You can have a series of nested if's to check for the various other menu calls (e.g. Help, Find... etc). Also you could set the userLevel property to 1 or 2 or whatever to lock out the message (I think!) -- Kenneth Seah (kseah@cs.utexas.edu||PO Box 8565, Austin, TX 78713-8565) Grad Student, Dept of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin "Money means nothing 'cause hacks are free..." (Apologies to MK) Disclaimer: Disclaim 'er?? Why I don't even know 'er...
taylorj@yvax.byu.edu (08/08/90)
In <10955@cs.utexas.edu>, kseah@cs.utexas.edu (Kenneth Cheng-Lim Seah) writes: >You can have a series of nested if's to check for the various other ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >menu calls (e.g. Help, Find... etc). I don't mean to pick on the poster, but this seemed an opportune time to point out a useful but seemingly little-known feature of HyperTalk: that you don't need to nest if's. E.g. if foo = "bar" then ... else if foo = "blee" then ... else if foo = "xyzzy" then ... end if end if end if can be written much more simply and legibly as if foo = "bar" then ... else if foo = "blee" then ... else if foo = "xyzzy" then ... Although HyperTalk can't do case statements (sigh...) this at least lets you get much closer than using nested if's. Jim Taylor Microcomputer Support for Curriculum | Brigham Young University | Bitnet: taylorj@byuvax.bitnet 101 HRCB, Provo, UT 84602 | Internet: taylorj@yvax.byu.edu