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 Lines: 22 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. Herb Poppe NCAR INTERNET: hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (303) 497-1296 P.O. Box 3000 CSNET: hpoppe@ncar.CSNET Boulder, CO 80307 UUCP: hpoppe@ncar.UUCP