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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
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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