The SuperCard package shipped with a handy example app called SampleDraw, elements of which are useful to most apps. One of the useful things about SC's backgrounds being independent of the window is that they effectively form a window "pane", making printing large backgrounds a one-liner and other niceties.
Most of those I've gotten around, but find my pre-coffee self stumped on this one: How do you _interactively_ create an object in a background? That is, without hiding the scroll bars. :) There have been many good tips here recently for creating objects in backgrounds, but if memory serves none of them addressed the case of a drawing application, in which the user creates objects interactively and manipulates them with the pointer tool. If we use a background with scrollbars, and use a non-selectable graphic as the first object in that group to serve as a pane (defining the scrollable area) we're off to a good start as far as letting the user maniplate objects. But to make new ones by dragging them out with the graphic tool? Hmmm.... -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Custom Software and Web Development for All Major Platforms Developer of WebMerge 1.9: Publish your database on the Web ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
