Pierre Sahores wrote :

>Sorry friends ! Are we the lonely ones - with you, Andu - to get no
>trouble with the MC GUI ?

Add me to both lists :

- as a developper of cd-rom i don't mind to use the MC GUI as it is, and i
did not use anymore Director, Supercard, OMO or Toolbook for more than 18
month. MetaTalk is much cleaver and much more powerfull. But also the
metacard .exe are thin and fast ; metacard is by far the best authoring
system for a delivery on cd-rom (whe should prepair a list of awards : best
xtalk langage, best support, best cross-platform tool, best server side
internet tool, best cdrom authoring package ...)

- but as a professor,  i can not even think of using Metacard with my
students :-((  Not only because the interface is u(nix)gly, but also because
the help stacks are too cryptically designed (not always consistant, not
enough examples, not sample code to copy and paste, no fulltext search
facility, no FAQ...). I can not say to my students "go and browse through
the MC list..."

I cannot blame Metacard corp if they prefer prepair MC 2.4 for "experienced
developpers" (like me :-)) than prepair a cleaner GUI for new developpers
like my students :-( ... even if i agree with Richard Gaskin when he wrote :

>A $10k facelift to MC would save more than $100k in sales.

Actually for the "more than $100k in sales", i dont know. But i agree with
the "$10k facelift" ; if Metacard want to win more new users, it only needs
an clean and easy GUI (� la Hypercard), not an heavy, slow and bugged one (�
la Supercard 3).

Claude


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