Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!uvaarpa!mcnc!ecsvax!dlugose From: dlugose@ecsvax.UUCP (Dan Dlugose) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: deleting 2 of 3 backgrounds in a stack? Message-ID: <7461@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 89 16:50:43 GMT References: <14418215MES@MSU> Reply-To: dlugose@ecsvax.uncecs.edu.UUCP (Dan Dlugose) Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 21 In article <14418215MES@MSU> 18215MES@MSU.BITNET writes: >I merges 3 stacks which were identical, except for the graphics on each card. >It seems that the backgrounds from stacks 2 and 3 came with the cards, now >when I want to modify the background, I must modify all three... Is it possible >to delete 2 of the three backgrounds??? >many thanks, Mark Sartor, 221 Ag Hall, MSU, E. Lansing Mi. 48823, 517-332-3609 Cards are inseperable from their background by ordinary means. If You delete a background, you also delete the associated cards; if you paste a card, you paste it's background unless the stack already has that background. If your stack has a lot of cards, it seems you should write a script that goes to each card; if it's background is the undesired one, you shuttle back and forth between that card and a new card on the wanted background copying and pasting the graphics and whatever else needs to be moved. It will be slow. A similar alternative is shuttling back and forth between the old separate stacks and the new stack, copying and pasting graphics. Dan Dlugose UNC Educational Computing Service