Hi Astrid
This is nice! We should join forces -- we actually need a "DBjr" kind of media
that can make "universal pages" i.e. anything desktop publishing can do, but
also programmable ...
Cheers,
Alan
>________________________________
> From: Astrid Thomschke <[email protected]>
>To: "<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 12:21 AM
>Subject: Re: [lively-kernel] Try DBJr (HyperCard-like stacks in Lively Kernel)
>
>Hi everyone -
>
>I once built a HyperCard implementation in LivelyKernel myself, which
>can be found here:
>http://lively-kernel.org/repository/webwerkstatt/projects/BP2012/IPadPresentationPages/Hypercard.xhtml
>.
>Initially this was supposed to be a demo implementation to see how
>good LivelyKernel works on iPad - or more how well our progress on
>bringing LivelyKernel to the iPad is going (I'm part of a bachelors
>project which implements collaborative and mobile features). However,
>thinking about the functionality of the background, it kind of ended
>up in implementing morph diffing and merging for the PartsBin, which
>is still WIP...
>
>- Astrid
>
>On 2 May 2012 21:49, Casey ransberger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> HyperCard, for every computer. Holy cow!
>>
>> Oh the times they are a-changin'...
>>
>> On Apr 30, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Ted Kaehler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> DynaBook Junior (DBJr) is an end-user authoring system in the tradition of
>>> HyperCard, SuperCard, and Visual Basic. If you remember HyperCard, you
>>> will recognize the concept of a page, a background, and a stack. Load this
>>> page in Chrome:
>>>
>>> http://lively-kernel.org/repository/webwerkstatt/users/TedKaehler/DBJr%20stack.xhtml
>>>
>>> DBJr lets you store information freeform without the restrictions of a
>>> database. You customize the action of a button by writing a script. It is
>>> even possible to make games and other mini-applications.
>>>
>>> The world has a demo stack that explains DBJr. You can make a new stack
>>> with
>>> $world.get("Stack").demo()
>>>
>>> From that stack, you can use the user interface to add and delete pages,
>>> drop in morphs of any kind, and move morphs to the background.
>>>
>>> I built DBJr originally in Squeak, and ported it to Lively Kernel. Many
>>> thanks to the Liver Kernel team.
>>>
>>> --Ted Kaehler. (Viewpoints Research)
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