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> From: Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Notes about MetaCard
> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 99 22:01:29 -0700
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> Maybe everyone else knows this, but just in case, since I don't think
> it's documented:
>
> command-option-S on the Mac edits the stack script immediately. I don't
> know what the Windows equivalent is, but control-option-S seems like a
> reasonable first guess.
>
> command-option-C on the Mac edits the card script.

Yes control-option-S and control-option-C work on the PC.

> Is there any keyboard command to switch from the browse to the pointer
> tool? (ala HyperCard's command-tab, command-tab-tab, and
> command-tab-tab-tab to switch between the browse tool, the button tool,
> and the field tool)
>
> Is there any way to edit the script of an object while using the browse
> tool, as opposed to switching to the pointer tool, and then
> option-command-clicking (on the Mac) on the object?
>
> Thanks

Just put in your stack a script like

on mouseDown buttonNumber
  if buttonNumber = 3 then
    edit the script of the target
  else
    pass mouseDown
  end if
end mouseDown

Of course this works only if you don't trap the mouseDown event at a higner
level.

I use mouseDown, not mouseUp, because most offen
> gc
>
> Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "C.D. Caterpillar teaches kids how to read, not how to watch cartoons."
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