Re: Diappearing bg's

Scott Raney ((no email))
Tue, 21 Sep 93 20:06:18 MDT

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> I have bg's Welcome and Precentation etc in my converted hc stack. But it seems
> that mc cant find them. They exists in bg list but whe I try start to editing
> them, I get bg not found error. Only way to edit is select it and start editing
> selObj or ungroup first. What is the problem?

The problem is that the "Edit Backgrounds" dialog isn't smart enough.
The addressing in imported HyperCard stacks works differently than for
native MetaCard stacks. For example, there are no groups in
HyperCard, so you can't get to these objects by refering to "group
whatever" (which is what the Edit Backgrounds dialog tries to do).
For now you'll have to start editing backgrounds using the message
box:
start editing bg "welcome"

> When I edit scipt of bg button welcome the title says that I am editing
> button on bg welcome. But if I type "edit scipt of button "OK" of bg "Welcome"
> I get bg not found.

Other than misspelling "script" this should work.

One other thing you might try if you want things to work like usual is
to set the "HCAddressing" property to false. That way, both
backgrounds and cards are searched for objects (none of the "card
fld"/"bg btn" rigamarole is necessary). Note that this may break your
scripts if you access objects by id or don't have unique names,
however.

> Arto Leskinen
> aleskine@cs.hut.fi
>

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