Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!pur-ee!pur-phy!cca From: cca@pur-phy (Charles C. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Fast way to create a button? Summary: local state, buttons vs. fields Message-ID: <1455@pur-phy> Date: 22 Sep 88 08:24:20 GMT References: <3060@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1080@marlin.NOSC.MIL> Distribution: na Organization: Purdue Univ. Phys Dept, W.Lafayette, IN Lines: 11 This brings up a point people have commented on before. Notice that the text for a background field is local to each card, while the highlight state of a background button is global. Basically, it would be nice if the "state" of a background button or field was a property that could be marked as local or shared. That's easy (right, Dan? :-). Now how about sharing scripts between different cards/fields/buttons/whatever? Having to update N different scripts (all the same) can be painful at times, besides being wasteful of space. Charlie Allen cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu