Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!gatech!ncsuvx!mcnc!ecsvax!dlugose From: dlugose@ecsvax.UUCP (Dan Dlugose) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Exposing overlapped fields (repost) Message-ID: <7504@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 89 21:17:37 GMT References: <478@gistdev.UUCP> Reply-To: dlugose@ecsvax.uncecs.edu.UUCP (Dan Dlugose) Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 13 In article <478@gistdev.UUCP> andy@gistdev.UUCP (Andy Warinner) writes: >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 How about a different strategy: Have the fields actually hidden; have a drawing on the card to represent the fields, with buttons that will show the field that is chosen. Of course this is perhaps not such a good idea if the user needs to choose a field by its content, and its content is often changing. Dan Dlugose UNC Educational Computing Service