Bug Report 2.5b6

[J. Landman Gay]

On 3/31/03 6:51 AM, Shari wrote:
>> Discovered a bug (?) in MC 2.5b6.Some, but not all of the buttons from
>> stacks made by earlier versions of MC appeared as rectangles, although
>> the type was "standard".
>> The solution was 'clearing' the background and foreground color of the
>> offending button with the color chooser (available with tab 'name').
> 
> That's interesting.  I've sometimes had a problem with the button style 
> getting hung up.  With earlier versions of Metacard (I'm using 2.4.3)

His problem may be more related to the new behavior of the 2.5 engine. 
 From the Read Me: "rectangle" style buttons now draw using Aqua 
routines on MacOS unless the backColor or backPattern of the button has 
been set.

> I'll try to choose popup, or option, or one of those styles, and it's as 
> if the current style is locked.  The button may or may not reflect the 
> change, but the dialog is locked.  When it happens, even creating a new 
> button, will still be locked.

This happens with converted HyperCard stacks. HyperCard has only one 
kind of popup button, and so your choices are similarly limited when the 
stack is brought into MetaCard. You need to set the hcAddresing property 
to false, which will elminate this behavior and allow you to set any 
kind of menu button you need. (All HC imported stacks have their 
hcAddressing set to true by default.)

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