Home
The HyperCard Center
Search
Help Extras

Home » Help Extras » Helpful Tips » Turn off Shared Hilite

Turn off Shared Hilite

To let the highlight of background buttons vary from card to card, deselect the Shared Hilite check box in the Button Info dialog box.

Turning off Shared Hilite lets a single background button appear highlighted on some cards and not on others.

« Turn off Fixed Line Height | Helpful Tips | Two ways to call functions »

Helpful Tips

Check and set memory
Constrain drawing to a grid
Copy elements from other stacks
Create a button with a graphic
Create a standard size button
Don’t use “the” with format names
Double-click Paint tools
Draw filled shapes
Draw from the center
Draw lines with a pattern
Draw multiple shapes
Enter and leave FatBits
Find a whole phrase
Find and match
Grouped text vs. active text
Home stack shortcuts
How HyperTalk sees a line
Icons and button names
List of synonyms
Locate all the buttons and fields
Mark cards from the Message box
Menu behavior
Move a shape while creating it
On using stacks
Operator precedence
Operator precedence in AppleScript
Power keys for Paint tools
Preset search paths
Properties of the Message Watcher
Properties of the Variable Watcher
Restore all text to default format
See all the cards in a stack
Send to back/Bring to front
Shortcuts for authoring
Shortcuts for browsing
Shortcuts for editing text
Shortcuts for painting
Shortcuts for scripting
Shortcuts for the card window
Shortcuts for the Icon Editor
Shortcuts for the Report Items dialog
Shortcuts for tool selection
Take a snapshot of the whole screen
Test a standalone-to-be stack
The different kinds of text
The layering of objects
Turn off Fixed Line Height
Turn off Shared Hilite
Two ways to call functions
Use the arrow keys for editing
User levels and Protect Stack
Using the dynamic path
Wait for arrow pointer before dragging
Where should I put the field?

Version 0.8b4 (July 4, 2025)

Made with Macintosh

Sitemap | Switch to Retro View