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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
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Date: 22 Sep 88 08:24:20 GMT
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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