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From: fugitt@eos.UUCP (Katherine Fugitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: how to make arbitrary-shaped buttons?
Message-ID: <4695@eos.UUCP>
Date: 14 Aug 89 17:52:09 GMT
References: <749taylorj@yvax.byu.edu>
Reply-To: fugitt@eos.UUCP (Katherine Fugitt)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <749taylorj@yvax.byu.edu> taylorj@yvax.byu.edu writes:
> Get the Waite Group's "Tricks of the HyperTalk Masters" from Hayden Books.
> There's a chapter in there on making "polybuttons" that is exactly what you
> need.  It's a complicated but beautiful solution.
> 
> Alternately, get SuperCard.  It supports polygon buttons directly.
> 
Not only that, but in SuperCard *any* object (button, field, draw 
graphic, or paint graphic) can support a script with "on mouseUp" or 
"on mouseEnter" or whatever.  In general, I'm fairly happy with SuperCard,
but it is *Quite* slow :-( .

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Katherine Fugitt                       fugitt@eos.arc.nasa.gov      
Graduate Research Assistant            ....!ames!eos!fugitt 
  (aka slave)
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