At 2:21 PM -0800 on 12/23/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
>> And what happens if you have two buttons that
>overlap
>> each other and you click the one that is partially
>> covered? Will it appear to "jump forward" then, like
>a
>> Macintosh control? Or will it just highlight the
>parts
>> that are visible, like a button in HyperCard?
>
>Alain: Macintosh controls "jump forward" ??
If overlapping, yes.
>Alain: The hiliting of parts in HyperCard is the same
>as the hiliting of Macintosh controls, aren't they??
No. HyperCard did it somewhat better.
>> It'd be best if we could do the tracking of a button
>
>> in FreeCard-specific code ...
>
>Alain: Are you talking about : (a) FreeCard-specific
>source code, written in C/C++, or (b) FreeCard script
>language code (FreeScript) ?
C/C++.
>> And we have to be able to change a button's style to
>
>> some custom style whenever its "style" property
>> changes ...
>
>Alain: set the style of <button> to <buttonStyle>
Yeh -- easier said than done. Once the interpreter gets that property set
request, how does it actually do it? Some C/C++ code has got to handle it,
and some systems don't mnake it easy.
