[noob again]static text

[Stephen Barncard]

Here's the confusion, and it's definitions. There is NO "static text 
tool" in Hypercard. There IS a "Paint Text" tool in HC, so I assume 
that is what you mean.

There is a full set of paint tools in Rev, too, except for Paint Text 
(click the disclosure triangle at the bottom of the pallette).

There would be no need for paint text, as Rev has actual label 
fields. Paint text in this context would not be that useful, as it 
would have to commit to 72 dpi, and the text fields use the font 
outlines which of course scale to the output dpi.   Much cleaner text 
output. Paint text would be very jaggy on paper.

sqb



>Actually, in HC one could, by choosing the...static text tool...create
>static text.  I can't remember a forms editor in any other IDE/RAD
>tool that lacks this feature.
>