Sivakatirswami wrote:
John wrote:
No. No. No. And, again, no. There should not be an author (a.k.a. edit)
mode in MC. That was/is (at least one of) the major problems with
Supercard. It violates the underlying metaphor: anything one does anywhere,
anytime in MC (and hypercard) can
On 23/4/01 11:06 pm, Monte Goulding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is a very simple thingto add a button to the home stack to do this. Make
a checkbox called lock messagges
set the text align to center
set the icon and the hilite icon to those locks on the icon palette
put this in the script:
Monte Goulding on Tue, 24 Apr 2001 wrote
It is a very simple thingto add a button to the home stack to do this. Make
a checkbox called lock messagges
set the text align to center
set the icon and the hilite icon to those locks on the icon palette
put this in the script:
on mouseUp
set
on 4/24/01 9:53 AM, Wilhelm Sanke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I am suggesting, however, is to have a static or author mode as
a *normal standard feature* of Metacard that is available to anyone -
even to a beginner that tries to find out how Metacard works by looking
at the scripts of
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, John Vokey wrote:
on 4/24/01 9:53 AM, Wilhelm Sanke wrote
What I am suggesting, however, is to have a static or author mode as
a *normal standard feature* of Metacard that is available to anyone -
even to a beginner that tries to find out how Metacard works by
As my messages on this topic so far have been duds I should keep quiet but I
am a glutton for punishment. You can probably build a simple addin for rev
by handling the revNewTool message that you can set in the addin manager to
be sent to the addin. Check the name of the tool selected and the
Metacard is probably the only authoring system without an author mode
that really stops all handlers in the scripts of a stack.
I have seen the need for such a feature again twice during the last week
- students trying to look at some of the scripts in the demo stack
- a stack I was working on
Sorry, concerning Revolution I am at least 50% wrong:
and Kevin on 04 May 2000 added responding to the same message:
This will be supported from the first release of our development UI.,
presumably meaning to have such a static mode available in Revolution,
which up to date in not the
another good one to put on he home stack is selectGroupedControls
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Subject: pointer tool - author mode (2)
Sorry, concerning
