On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Gaetan Trudel wrote:
> First let me introduce myself.
> I work as a technical adviser in prepress workflow. Our environment
> contains several platforms and operating systems. Unix and NT servers,
> Mac, PC and SGI rips (postscript raster image processors) and
> workstations. I do scripts in AppleScript and HyperTalk languages. My
> programming skills could be evaluated as Intermediate because of a few
> successful high school credits in programmation.
>
> My goal:
> I have a Hypercard stack that I want to port to the PC. The stack
> creates a lot of card buttons, card fields and bitmap graphics at run
> time. So it uses the tool palette a lot. The user also have to use the
> graphic tools a lot. The purpose of the stack is to build
> comprehensive layouts of imposition schemes. The user fills fiedls
> with page and press sheets sizes plus number of columns and rows and
> the stack generates press imposition sheets with all informations like
> margins and gutter distances, page and sheet sizes, page head
> orientation, etc.
> Hypercard is auto-saving each imposition layout in a card that we can
> reuse for other similar jobs.
> No way that I can do that with the starter kit...
Why not? There's no limit on saving in the starter kit or at runtime
in general. The gotcha is that painting isn't supported on Windows
yet, so your scripts would have to be redone to do the drawing with
graphic objects. You'd probably want to do this anyway because it's
much more efficient and flexible than using paint tools for this, but
this work would definitely cause you to run into the script-length
limits in the starter kit.
> About 8 people are using the stack.
>
> My question:
> I read all the information in the starter kit and still not sure if
> I absolutely have to get the license of a home stack for each PC
> unit where I want my stack to run?
No, only for yourself (and whoever would be working on the
*development* of the stacks).
> Myself alone will be using MC to create or convert stacks. The users
> will only use the stacks as end users. Is there a way to save the
> tool and browser palettes in a standalone application?
Yes, but even better would be to make up your own customized palettes.
> I'm willing to
> live by the rules and pay for a multiple user license, but I want to
> be sure not to pay more than needed.
>
> As the status of Hypercard is not sure, MC could well be a good option
> for me.
Sounds like it, because it'll cover you on your UNIX systems as well
as your Windows and MacOS systems.
Regards,
Scott
> Thank You.
>
> Regards
>
> Gaetan Trudel
>
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Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com
MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
