Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!agate!eos!fugitt 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. Lines: 17 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 :-( . -- Katherine Fugitt fugitt@eos.arc.nasa.gov Graduate Research Assistant ....!ames!eos!fugitt (aka slave) Everyone's entitled to their own stupid opinion! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)