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Thanks Jim, In thinking about what I've been attempting I thought "how is what I'm trying to do not basically a slide show?" So I searched on "slideshow LiveCode" and lo and behold there is a full implementation in the lesson portal..."Simple Slide Show". In that example it addresses dealing with pe...

Hi all and thanks for the suggestions and examples. I am working through all of them but, as a challenge, I am still trying to implement a single control that, when held down, flips through all the cards in a stack. I looked at an old thread on a "show all cards" discussion I was involved in a coupl...

Hi, I am trying to recreate an old fashioned "hypercard" flip card animation. There is an old hypercard stack that animates a gasoline engine with its piston cycling in the cylinder. In this hypercard stack there is a background button with a simple script that goes to the next card on mouseStillDow...

Thanks for the feedback. I have no problem cloning and dragging buttons, images or groups within my main stack window, or even clicking on a control in my palette stack and having it appear in my main stack, I just couldn't figure out how to drag a visible image from a palette sub stack across to my...

Hi, I have been looking for ways to emulate the behavior of the IDE tool palette, where you can drag and drop a control onto your stack. I am not looking for code examples, just a general approach to how it is done. When I peruse the revTools stack script, there is a lot going on there I appreciate ...

Klaus, Thanks for the quick response. I thought that might be the case but hoping that maybe I was missing something in how to use it. Even in HyperCard running on Sheepshaver the show command cycles through the cards extremely fast. I think I will just find or create an alternate handler with param...

I would like some help understanding how to use the "show card" command properly, especially the variant "show all cards". I've searched the forum and online but haven't found anything relevant. When I script a button with "on mouseUp show all cards end mouseUp" it either is going through the cards ...