Hi Graham,
Just so you know, there are two Ken's actively on this list. Ken Ray's the pro, but I'm getting better at getting around Rev.
Yes, in fact I do know - Ken Ray has been giving me excellent advice since my SuperCard days...
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Alternative solution:
In the multi-line msg box, write a script to change all your buttons to style "round", set the hiliteColor to your choice, and give them all a family number, probably "1" (see the "family" keyword in the Transcript Dictionary).
NOW, you can put a noop grc over the top of all of them to intercept mouse clicks, thus blocking the user from clicking them.
This family of buttons will take on radioBehavior characteristics, i.e., you can only set the hilite of one at a time, even by script, thus:
set the hilite of button x to true
...will set the hilite of _only_ that button to true, meaning whatever the hiliteColor of that button is will show that color while all the rest are blank (clear).
I made a little stack with 30 of these things (all of them green, but they could each have been a different color, any of 256 colors) in it that lighted randomly. Reminded me of those TV depictions of computers back in the '50's. Now I just need to add wierd little sounds to complete the effect.
That's really cool, Ken! I didn't know about 'family' (you can't set it using the property inspector, so it's hard to see how anyone would find out about it). I will have a lot of families, I guess, but the feature is worth using. No idea why it goes with backgroundBehavior - I can imagine this could be a showstopper in some situations, tho' not the one I'm working on.
I'm sure I could provide you with a whole repertoire of wierd little sounds...
Back to the grindstone.
Thanks
Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France
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