How to I flatten a Hypercard stack (now Livecode) from cards and backgrounds to just cards?

kee nethery kee at kagi.com
Sat Oct 4 19:04:16 EDT 2014


OK, I’ll give it a try. Thanks!
Kee


> On Oct 4, 2014, at 1:40 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 
>> From the message box, set the HCAddressing to false.  That's all you should need to do.  
> 
> On October 4, 2014 3:16:45 PM CDT, kee nethery <kee at kagi.com> wrote:
>> I imported a stack that uses a whole series of separate backgrounds.
>> I’m converting it into Livecode and one of the things I’d like to do to
>> bring it into the modern era is to get rid of card
>> fields/buttons/scripts and background fields/buttons/scripts and just
>> have fields, buttons and card/stack scripts.
>> 
>> How do I get the stack from the distinction between cards and
>> backgrounds to the more modern format of just cards?
>> 
>> Is there a recipe of what to do in what order to make the transition?
>> 
>> is it as simple as finding every card with something that has the
>> backgroundBehavior set to true and turning that off? Then fixing all
>> the scripts to not make a distinction between card or background?
>> 
>> Kee
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