> Adrian: Hello again. It has been a while.
I guess that it has. Time flies!
> Adrian: It wasn't quite meant to be PR work for
> FreeCard, but for HC. Still I think I've hit
> two birds with one so to speak.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to them apart.
In my book, PR for HyperCard is PR for FreeCard, and
vice-versa. :)
> Alain: 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!
> Adrian: That may well be worth doing.
Expect the Pantechnicon to become my greatest
achievement so far, if it isn't already. As you know,
it is essentially the resurrection of the UFP. It's a
collaboration that is within my range of expertise,
unlike FreeCard. And the Pantechnicon seems to have
picked the curiosity of a critical-mass of interested
HC fans, more than the UFP or FC combined. Serge
Grenier summed it up rather elegantly recently when he
wrote to me: "...third time charmed...".
Expect my FreeGUI in the coming week. Then a
resumption in earnest on the Pantechnicon, which I
have been sort of "neglecting" because of the GUI. The
focus will now be on the HyperCard-native FreeGUI, of
course, which will undoubtedly boost our Pan
attendance to an all-time high and, not so indirectly,
will also boost FreeCard's profile. :)
And, finally, I am focusing on the Pantechnicon for my
doctoral research in Cognitive Computing. Model the
group dynamics of the Pan's participants. Smart (AI)
agents to facilitate collaborative
software-development, consensus-based decision-making
... You know the rest! ;-)
> Adrian: When I next get a chance to look at the web
> site I will add a link to the Pantechnicon
somewhere.
Thank you, Adrian.
> Alain: Even more relevant (for the FreeCard group),
> I am on the verge of releasing the first version
> of FreeGUI.
> Adrian: This is excellent news.
Isn't it though! ;-)
> Adrian: I have been wondering if anyone was
> working on FreeCard but have been too busy
> to do anything myself.
That's understandable. We have all been guilty of that
at one time or another. My solution was to merge my
hobby-like interests with my professional activities,
into a seamless whole. :)
> Adrian: I was under the impression that FreeGUI
> was being created in MetaCard but am quite happy
> to hear that it is actually in HyperCard.
It was being developed solely for MetaCard, at first,
but I strategically chose to prototype FreeGUI with
HyperCard because, despite HyperCard's limitations and
slowness, HC is familiar and accessible to far more
people than MetaCard is.
The MC version will be released shortly afterwards,
once I have ported the HC version to MetaCard. After
that, I am not sure what will happen yet.
> Alain: So there you have it. I am getting back to
> work on the FreeGUI. It will be released in approx
> a week.
> Adrian: Fabulous.
I am becoming increasingly pleased-with and proud-of
my work on FreeGUI. It looks and feels like our good
ol' HyperCard, albeit a little bit slower. The nearly
completed scripting contains some really neat
"tricks", including some scripts that write scripts
that write scripts, liberal use of the infamous "do"
command, etc.
FreeGUI's engin (scripts) is contained in two stacks
that your start/stop using, so switching between
FreeGUI and HyperCard's native GUI is a functionKey
away. The editable stack-based dialogs that HC-fans
will download contain almost no code at all.
> Alain: 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.
Thank you for your prompt replies, Adrian and Uli.
> Adrian: The web site is pretty much just sitting
> stagnant. I am swamped with assignments and will
> be for the next two months or so.
I know what that is like. And it is not unlikely that
this will happen to me, e.g. when the contracts
pour-in and/or my doctoral studies pick up steam. Both
of these time-consuming possibilities are not
unrelated to what I am doing for us, though, so
nothing is lost.
> Adrian: After that though I will be on summer
> holidays for three months or more so I should
> be able to get something done then.
Here in Quebec (Canada), summer has just ended. Autumn
has settled in. Temperatures have dropped
significantly. You aussies have got things
upside-down! Or maybe we do. Everything is relative,
eh! ;-)
Alain Farmer
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