Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!att!laidbak!rls
From: rls@laidbak.UUCP (Richard Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: how to make arbitrary-shaped buttons?
Keywords: buttons, fields, buffer, madonna-please-marry-me
Message-ID: <2594@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 89 23:10:07 GMT
Organization: Lachman Associates, Inc., Naperville, IL
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	I'm wondering how I can produce arbitrarily-shaped buttons in
Hypercard, such that I could do, for example, a map of an area, where
within the boundaries of each sub-region, I could do a button action.
Unfortunately, variations of rectangles just doesn't suffice. Can I
*draw* a custom button area, using the drawing tools? None of the HyperCard
books I have say this.

	Also, does HyperCard do some sort of caching of it's state, and then
do occasional buffer flushes (e.g. like UNIX's "sync")? I notice when I'm 
working on my Sun, I can hear my Mac hard-drive do an access once every few
minutes or so, but only when HyperCard is running on it (quiescently - on
the Home card). Just curious.

        rich scott                              {sun,att}!laidbak!rls
        interactive systems corporation         voice: (800) LAI-UNIX x255
        naperville, il, usa
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