More on 'allowObjects'

[Ken Ray]

On 7/2/05 2:16 AM, "Mathewson" <richmond at mail.maclaunch.com> wrote:

> HOWEVER: 'allowObjects' in SuperCard 4.5 appears to allow
> the 
> embedding of other objects (QT Players, Buttons, and so
> on), not just images.

Actually, the help docs on 'allowObjects' says:

"The allowObjects property of text fields, when set to true, turns on
support for embedded graphics, paragraph level formatting, tabs, text
strikethrough and superscript and subscript formatting."

So I don't think you can embed anything other than images.
 
> I had an image of a scrolling text field about (for
> example)
> the history of The Holy Roman Empire complete with movies
> extracts at the relevant places in the text; buttons to
> play music, pictures of the "happy, smiling faces" of the
> Holy Roman Emperors, and so forth.
>
> Now, it may be that it is already possible to embed OBJECTS
> / CONTROLS other than IMAGES - but I cannot find a
> reference to the equivalent of 'imageSource' for this.

You can't embed anything other than images in a field - but you could
accomplish the same thing in MC/Rev/DC with groups; place your items on the
card, group them together, resize the group to be smaller and then turn on
scrolling for the group. You'll get the same effect.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com