On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, John Vokey wrote:
> >on 4/24/01 9:53 AM, Wilhelm Sanke 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...
> (snip)
> > 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?
>
> John R. Vokey, Ph.D.
> Chair
> Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
> University of Lethbridge
>
I have the feeling that your emphatic "no" is caused by your experiences
with the divided structure of Supercard, having indeed a separate
"editing mode" as a different part of Supercard, which has to be
launched as an extra file - or the other way round when you want to
switch back to a browse mode (Excuse me in case the terminology is
wrong, I do not have the Supercard user book at hand).
To have a structure like Supercard is indeed very far from me. I very
much disliked this aspect of Supercard. What I am advocating is to be
able to stop the animated rabbit hopping across my screen immediately
when I want to create an object or look at a script, and this with one
mouseclick, and to go back to "browse mode" again with one mouseclick.
Is the Revolution team also violating the "underlying metapher" with its
"suppress messages" button?
The only difference between them and myself is that I favor to have this
"author" feature connected with the pointer tool, but I can also happily
live with two mouseclicks instead of one as in Revolution.-
Regards,
Wilhelm Sanke
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