Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!ncar!bierstadt!hpoppe
From: hpoppe@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: how to make arbitrary-shaped buttons?
Keywords: buttons, fields, buffer, madonna-please-marry-me
Message-ID: <3993@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 15 Aug 89 20:04:38 GMT
References: <2594@laidbak.UUCP>
Reply-To: hpoppe@bierstadt.UCAR.EDU (Herb Poppe)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <2594@laidbak.UUCP> rls@laidbak.UUCP (Richard Scott) writes:
>
>	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.
>
Keith Rollin at Apple developed a series of XCMD/XFCNs that allow
a region to be a button. The XCMD/XFCNs are included in a stack called
"Region Button" which demoes them and contains source code as well.
This stack surfaced in 1987.

This stack is not at sumex.stanford.edu nor at apple.com (at least
I couldn't find it there).

I cannot mail this stack.

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