Temporary picts

[erik hansen]

if you are importing custom icons from HC,
they will wind up in their own Stack BackGround.

Go to Edit BackGrounds and click on "HC Icons" in
the Stack Backgrounds window right below the Card
Groups window.
  
--- Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
> 
> On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 04:43  AM, Shari
> wrote:
> 
> > If I wanted to show a temporary graphic in
> Hypercard, I'd use addColor 
> > colorPict.
> >
> > I could use this to create 50 duplicate
> images of a graphic, moving 
> > across the screen randomly, leaving a trail
> of graphics behind. Without 
> > needing 50 objects to link the graphics to.
> >
> > Is there a way to do this in Metacard?  Show
> a graphic temporarily, not 
> > linked to an object (not requiring that I
> have 50 or 100 image 
> > objects), then be able to wipe the images
> away with a visual effect?
> 
> One way is buttons.  You won't need 50 image
> objects, but you will need 
> 50 button objects, of which you set the icon to
> the ID of whatever 
> source image you have.
> 
> set the icon of btn movingBtn1 to the id of img
> sourceImg
> repeat with x = 2 to 50
>    clone btn movingBtn1
>    set the name of last btn to ("movingBtn" &
> x)
> end repeat
> 
> You should wind up with 50 buttons all
> referencing the same source image 
> (make sure you disable all the properties of
> the original button so it 
> doesn't look or respond like a button object).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director, Tactile Media
> scott at tactilemedia.com
> http://www.tactilemedia.com


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erik at erikhansen.org                 http://www.erikhansen.org

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