Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!unmvax.cs.unm.edu!stone From: stone@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Exposing overlapped fields (repost) Message-ID: <275@unmvax.unm.edu> Date: 12 Aug 89 19:55:46 GMT References: <478@gistdev.UUCP> Sender: news@unmvax.unm.edu Reply-To: stone@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Andrew Stone) Organization: University of New Mexico at Albuquerque Lines: 28 In article <478@gistdev.UUCP> andy@gistdev.UUCP (Andy Warinner) writes: > >(I am reposting this since we had some network trouble here) > >I am developing a Hypercard stack that will have fields that possibly >overlap each other. When the user clicks on the exposed portion >of a field that is overlapped, I would like to bring the field closer >so that all of it is visible. I wrote the following script to do this >but it SLOW (about 4 - 5 seconds on an SE/30 with 4 megs of memory). > >Does anyone out there in netland know a faster way to do this? Something that has saved me hours in developing is the fact that SHift-Command-- [minus] and shift-Command-+ bring the selected object to the back and front respectively. Perhaps you can try something like: choose field tool select target type "+" with commandkey and shiftkey choose browse tool Let us know what actually does the job. Yaandy [yet another andy] ||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<?>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>|| !! Andrew Stone !! the fictive milieu of !! !! stone@rye.cs.unm.edu <> contemporary society! !! ||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<?>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||