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> A project a team I'm in is working on for a local middle school is
> utilizing a consistent frame layout, a white page (with shadow) on an
> aqua background.  Accidentally selecting the white page while putting on
> text and graphics and grouping them has becoming quite annoying;  is
> there no equivalent of "locking" a background as in MacDraw, must one
> write code as Ms. Phipps described?  (If so, could that be copied to go
> with every screen?)

Yes, you must "lock" a display with the Movable variable.  Another way,
instead of the way Ms. Phipps described, is to simply put
'Movable:=false' in a calculation icon that's attached to the display
that you don't want to move.  This might be easier since you can copy the
phrase, open the calc icon, and paste it in without customizing it for
each icon.

> And is there an address for MacroMedia to send suggestions of this nature
> to (allow "locking" of backgrounds or other elements, or even providing
> multiple layers, as in HyperCard)? (Come to think of it, does anyone have
> an E-Mail address for Microsoft?  I would like to make a number of

I don't have an address for Microsoft, but for Macromedia, you can send
product enhancement requests to:

Authorware Product Manager
Macromedia
600 Townsend Street, Suite 310W
San Francisco, CA 94103-4945

To fax your requests, send them to 415-626-0554.

-- Ed