From: [email protected] (Paul Molenaar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: 1 question, 1 remark
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Date: 2 Dec 87 08:10:11 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-K, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Lines: 34
Keywords: fields & sizes
Is this a feature or a bug?
I was happily writing a simple stack to accompany an article
in a Dutch computer magazine. I made a recipe stack (I know, boring
that had four background fields, one transparent, one rectangle
and two scrolling.
But making the scrolling fields I discovered something peculiar:
When I made the scrolling fields in the background mode, they would
not show up in the card. However, is I made the fields in foreground
mode, cut and paste them into the background, they _would_ show up on
every card... Weird.
Any1 any clue?
Remark:
I know this has been discussed before, but it still is amazing...
I also made a stack to look up all Dutch area codes. All names and
area codes were in a file about 48Kb large. But when I put them
in a stack, the file-size of that stack was an amazing 450kb!!! Even
after compacting the beast. And all I used was one background and nothing
but two fields and two buttons in that background.
If Bill did such a good job on compacting pictures, he might make an
effort in compacting the stack-size in general!!!
.
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Paul Molenaar
"Just checking the walls"
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