Visual Basic? HyperCard? An early morning ramble.

Lawson English english at primenet.com
Mon Feb 28 16:45:31 UTC 2000


On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 6:44 AM, Bob Arning <mailto:arning at charm.net> wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 07:07:56 -0500 "Jay Carlson" <nop at nop.com> wrote:
>>My favorite is when you select the wrong level of morph to
manipulate---like
>>the text, rather than the scrolling view that surrounds it.  The first
time
>>I did this, I said "wow! look at all the generality in the system!".  The
>>second time, it made me wonder "is there some way of automatically
locking
>>substructure that an app isn't dealing with?".  The third time I just got
>>annoyed.  I'm still trying to get my head around Paragraph, so these
kinds
>>of changes in Morphic are beyond me for the moment.
>
>Jay,
>
>I don't think this change would be particularly difficult to implement.
What's tricky is knowing which
>morphs the user might wish to have locked out of all the morphs that exist
in the world at a given
>time. Locking everything in a bowser, e.g., is not hard, but if the user
wants some parts of the
>browser locked and others not, the devil is in defining which is which. Do
you have further thoughts/
>examples of what those might be in your case?

HyperCard did it by locking according to class. I.E., you could manipulate
buttons OR text fields, but not both simultaneously by clicking on them. If
you selected the button editor, all buttons would hilite in some way to
give you visual cues of where to click.

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