ACC Progress Update 1

[Brad Smith]

On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 11:46  AM, peter boardman wrote:

> A better way would be to create a shape object called ³status²,
> that looks like it¹s going to display some text when the user clicks
> on any other object. Then, for each object of interest, add an action
> such as:
>
> --
> tell front document
>     set text of shape "status" to "I told you this was a cool program"
> end tell
> --
>
> Now, when the user switches to Browse mode and clicks on a object, the
> text appears in the ³status² object.

As am I.  How do I create a shape with a particular name?  I don't see 
an option other than the text that appears inside the shape, and that 
doesn't seem to affect the script.

Brad

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Brad Smith
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The Mac Observer