Re: HyperCard Button Icons

2008-07-24 Thread dbrooks
Thanks Jacque, Mark, and Phil. This tells me where to look. Best, Dave B. David Brooks wrote: The converted stack (HC --> RR) DOES have the icons. When those buttons are copied to a stack created in RR, they appear. Once that original stack is removed from memory, the icons are no l

Re: HyperCard Button Icons

2008-07-24 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Jacque, You appear to be right. The HCAddressing doesn't affect the ID's, only whether "card" or "background" is included in object references. So, the problem really must be that the images are only in the original stack and copying them should be sufficient. -- Best regards, Mark Sc

Re: HyperCard Button Icons

2008-07-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Mark Schonewille wrote: Yes, there is a problem with ID numbers. Probably, the buttons are using the altID of the images. The images are in the original stack. The hcAddressing of the new stack is false, which means that the normal ID instead of the altID is used and thus the icons don't appea

Re: HyperCard Button Icons

2008-07-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
David Brooks wrote: The converted stack (HC --> RR) DOES have the icons. When those buttons are copied to a stack created in RR, they appear. Once that original stack is removed from memory, the icons are no longer available. Is there an easy way to access these icons? I did get a png file

Re: HyperCard Button Icons

2008-07-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Phil and Dave, Yes, there is a problem with ID numbers. Probably, the buttons are using the altID of the images. The images are in the original stack. The hcAddressing of the new stack is false, which means that the normal ID instead of the altID is used and thus the icons don't appear

Re: HyperCard Button Icons

2008-07-23 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Dave, Here's my best guess: When you copy the icons to the new stack, RR gives them new IDs unrelated to the original IDs they have in the converted stack. The buttons are still looking for the old icon IDs which are now gone from memory (after closing old stack), so no icons are displayed.

HyperCard Button Icons

2008-07-23 Thread David Brooks
I foolishly was so excited by the RunRev conference in Las Vegas that I agreed to teach a course in RunRev. Now that the rubber is 5 weeks away from hitting the road, I'm learning about "issues." A HyperCard demonstration came from a stack called StackStarter by Robertson Smith. The user