on 4/24/01 9:53 AM, Wilhelm Sanke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What I am suggesting, however, is to have a "static" or "author" mode as
> a *normal standard feature* of Metacard that is available to anyone -
> even to a beginner that tries to find out how Metacard works by looking
> at the scripts of the demo stack.
> I am also suggesting to connect this feature with the pointer tool, so
> that it is automatically invoked each time you want to do some
> "authoring", creating an object, changing a script etc. It is presumably
> more user-friendly to have to use one control instead of two (and having
> to look where in the menu the second control has been placed).
>
> I propose to combine the "suppress messages" button with the pointer
> tool in Revolution, too
>
> Such a feature request of course may not have first priority, but if
> there is no compelling reason against a combination of the pointer tool
> and an author mode, it could be realized.
>
> Regards,
>
> Wilhelm Sanke
No. No. No. And, again, no. There should not be an author (a.k.a. "edit")
mode in MC. That was/is (at least one of) the major problems with
Supercard. It violates the underlying metaphor: anything one does anywhere,
anytime in MC (and hypercard) can generate messages that can (but need not)
be responded to. So, even editing a script of an object is still just
typing characters into a field of some stack --- as it should be. MC is
modeless, as it should be. What's next, a clamour for separate edit,
compile, link modes, and paper tape to save the programs on?
--
5. "Although Sarah had an abnormal fear of mice, it did not keep her
from eking out a living at a local pet store."
-- Top 10 winner of the Bulwer Lytton Contest, wherein one writes only
the first line of a bad novel.
John R. Vokey, Ph.D.
Chair
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
University of Lethbridge
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