chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (10/31/87)
HYPER-HACKERS Digest Vol. 1 #2 Subjects: loss of environment DoMenu and FunctionKeys Hyper Card Requests Attaching new icons to Stacks? Copy Card is really Card & Background! ----------------------------------- From: halff@nprdc.arpa (Henry Halff) Subject: loss of environment Whenever I exit Hypercard via say a print command, I find that the entire environment, local variables, etc. is gone when I return. How do people normally deal with this problem? ----------------------------------- From: PUGH@NMFECC.ARPA Subject: DoMenu and FunctionKeys Here is a simple script to add to your Home stack that is very handy for dealing with the Help pages: on doMenu x if x is "Help" then go to card "HyperTalk" of stack "Help" else pass doMenu end if end doMenu Here's another one that works with the extendend keyboard (USS Saratoga): On functionkey whatkey if whatkey is 1 then type "z" with CommandKey -- undo! else if whatkey is 2 then type "x" with CommandKey -- cut! else if whatkey is 3 then type "c" with CommandKey -- copy! else if whatkey is 4 then type "v" with CommandKey -- paste! Like they say! else if whatkey is 5 then choose browse tool -- browse else if whatkey is 6 then choose button tool -- button else if whatkey is 7 then choose field tool -- field! Without a menu! else if whatkey is 8 then type "x" with commandkey -- Cut whatever is seleted domenu "background" -- enter the background type "v" with commandkey -- Paste it domenu "background" -- leave the background end if end functionkey ----------------------------------- From: TN07@TE.CC.CMU.EDU Subject: Hyper Card Requests Now that I have the horsepower I would like to have Hypercard running all of of the time under MutiFinder. But, Hpercard doesn't have a size box or zoom box so it takes up too much real estate on my Mac II screen. Is there any way I can hide the Hypercard window and recall it quickly? Now for a wish stack; I would like to see a stack that would read the directory of a floppy and then write the files to a card. Of course it should not write out system file names. Autonumbering of the card and some user defined text id would also be nice. Any Hyper Hackers ready to take it on? ----------------------------------- From: Gregg Foster <Foster.PA@Xerox.COM> Subject: Attaching new icons to Stacks? In Goodman's "Hypercard Handbook" he makes a vague reference to attaching new icons to stacks that one plans to distribute. How is this done? I'd like to both alter existing icons and add new icons that I design. Presumably one uses ResEdit, but what is the recipe? And while I'm asking: how about iconifying snippets of clip art? Thanks. ----------------------------------- From: PUGH@NMFECC.ARPA Subject: Copy Card is really Card & Background! Does anyone know how to delete a background from a card or do I have to rebuild the entire card to eliminate the spurious background? I copied a card from a different stack, but it brought the card's background with it. I do not want the background, merely the card and it's fields and buttons. ----------------------------------- End of HYPER-HACKERS Digest --- Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ