Tiger breaks hyperCard?

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Fri Sep 23 17:57:17 EDT 2005


sez jacque at hyperactivesw.com:
>Marty Billingsley wrote:
>> We really miss HC's text tool for "painting"
>> letters and words.  Why did RunRev eliminate that?
>They didn't, really -- Scott Raney, who wrote the original engine, just
>never put it in. I used to think I'd miss it, but so far I haven't ever
>needed paint text. Is there something specific you do that requires it?
   Special effects, mostly. With paint text, you can use spiffy paint-type 
tricks on it -- turning it sideways, doing outline stuff, filling the 
letterforms with patterns, etc. With field text, your options are significantly more 
restricted.



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