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

[J. Landman Gay]

On 10/5/2014, 1:52 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
> Kee Nethery says that he wants to remove backgrounds in a stack
> “to bring it into the modern era” Can anybody explain this statement ?
>
> What does this mean ? Is the background mechanism dying, or even
> being dropped ?

No, nothing has changed. I think what Kee meant was that he didn't want 
to specify "card field" or "background button" when referring to those 
objects. In HC that was required but in LC doesn't need those longer 
references. You can refer to a card field just as "field" and LC will 
still find it.

The HCAddressing property controls whether card fields and background 
buttons need to be referenced specifically by their owner locations. All 
HC stacks are imported with HCAddressing set to true. If you set the 
HCAddressing to false, the requirement no longer applies, and the 
controls will be found just as they are in native LC stacks.

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