> Hi there everyone,
Hello, Adrian :)
> A while back Australian MacWorld ran an article
> titled "Your First Mac App" and used RealBasic
> to create the app. Naturally I ... pointed out
> HyperCard, SuperCard, MetaCard and FreeCard as
> alternatives.
Naturally :)
> In the latest issue my letter has been printed
> and what's more, the hot links section features the
> link freecard.sourceforge.net as well as those for
> MetaCard and SuperCard. So, watch the web logs for
> some extra hits from down under.
Good PR work, Adrian.
> Perhaps we'd better do something to look alive...
Since we are talking about "Your First Mac App" and
other newbie material like that, perhaps we should
turn them on to the existence of the Pantechnicon. A
whole bunch of stacks, externals, handlers, etc ... to
really give them a head-start!
Even more relevant (for the FreeCard group), I am on
the verge of releasing the first version of FreeGUI.
All of HyperCard's dialogs, windoids, palettes and
such, have been recreated as HyperCard stacks. The
look and the user-interactions are completed. My
apprentice and me are currently tweeking the GUI, and
we are completing the scripting of the shell (e.g.
redirecting "on doMenu" and so on).
Thus, we are days away from a very HyperCard-like GUI
whose components are HyperCard stacks. Nearly
everything will be functional, and nearly identical to
HyperCard, but there will be some exceptions in this
first release. The icon-editor for example won't be
fully-functional.
What differentiates this subset of the FreeCard
project from the FreeCard project as a whole, is that
everything is HyperCard-based (and editable) and is
thus accessible to a much wider audience and larger
developer-base too, e.g. those familiar with
HC/HyperTalk but not with C.
The sub-project is moving along nicely, despite the
lack of experience of my apprentice. This final stage
is getting too complex for him, though. Its becoming
hard to distinguish what is HyperCard versus what is
FreeGUI. Its not conceptually easy either. At any
given time, the following question resurges: Are we
talking about the user's stack, or the stack-based
dialogs of FreeGUI, or HyperCard itself? Then, to top
it all off, there's the scripting scripts that will
generate scripts on-the-fly, notably when
reverse-engineering HC's ButtonTasks.
So there you have it. I am getting back to work on the
FreeGUI. I will be released in approximately a week.
Final word: It would be nice to get a brief summary
from each participant-developer of FreeCard, so that
we know where we stand, where we are going, estimated
time of arrival, etc.
Alain Farmer
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