To me, "insanely great" is the appropriate way to describe the
Hypercard experience and vision. After a dozen years of mainframe
development, I spent a year in the late 80's being retrained in
software development - this time with the human condition, not the
computer configuration, as the primary
>>> And HyperCard, in spite of its age, is STILL far better at printing
>>> reports and debugging. :)
>>
>> That's all I wish for in MetaCard. HyperCard debugger and spreadsheets from
>> OMO...
>> and graph object from OMO too :)
>
> breakpoint
>
> Am I missing something here???
Perhaps. The t
??
breakpoint
Am I missing something here???
> >And HyperCard, in spite of its age, is STILL far better at printing
>>reports and debugging. :)
>
>That's all I wish for in MetaCard. HyperCard debugger and spreadsheets from
>OMO...
>and graph object from OMO too :)
>T.G.
>
>
>Archives: http://w
>And HyperCard, in spite of its age, is STILL far better at printing
>reports and debugging. :)
That's all I wish for in MetaCard. HyperCard debugger and spreadsheets from
OMO...
and graph object from OMO too :)
T.G.
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Wilhelm wrote:
> I had the same discussion some time ago offlist with Scott Raney citing
> the same passages. This is really misleading, but there are hints
> constructing customized dialogs - maybe incomplete - under the item
> "modal".
>
> As I meanwhile make frequent use of such customized s
on 3/31/01 12:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Like many, I began with HC back in the early 1980's and the same spirit of
> community and shared pioneering advancement was transfered to the SuperCard
> list as many of us progressed with Allegiant. As Allegiant stumbled, many
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Subject: Cloned Ask and Answer Dialogs
>
> Ok, Please confirm then
>
> Use of the "ask" and "answer" commands will invoke ONLY the "ask dialog" and
> "answer dialog" substacks of the mctools.mc
>
> If that is true, the suggestion to
>The Xtalk Wrestlemania is over now and the guy
>standing in the middle of the ring hoisting the World
>Championship Belt above his head is nonother than the
>scrawny computer programmer Scott Raney.
Scrawny? Hey you have pics of Scott in trunks or what? Post them to
the group!
--
Cheers,
S
Carsten Levin wrote:
> But we forgot to ask about one important issue: How strong are the MetaCard
> organisation, how is the financial backing and are there a good and solid
> group of people behind the development - or is it a pure one man/woman
> product?
Of course Scott can answer that bette
> So let's all lay off the HyperCard folks. Many of us here may look down on
> HyperCard, but somewhere there may be a person who graduated from MetaCard
> to C++ who is laughing at us. And that's not right either.
With one difference: for many applications, choosing C++ is simply throwing
mon
Richard Gaskin wrote:
> It wasn't my intention to "poke fun" at HyperCard as one of the other posts
> suggests, but rather to remind them that nearly everything they've ever
> asked for -- and more -- is already available, in MetaCard.
I know you weren't making fun of them, because it is simply
--- Carsten Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But we forgot to ask about one important issue: How
strong is the MetaCard organisation, how is the
financial backing and is there a good and solid group
of people behind the development - or is it a pure one
man/woman product?
--- My reply
The Xt
-- From the Filter entry in the online help system --
"The special characters supported are the same as
those used by the Bourne shell."
Bourne shell special characters that don't work for me
in Metacard --
[^abc] -- any characters except a,b,c
[^ac] -- any characters except a through c
$
On 31/03/01 9:58, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So let's all lay off the HyperCard folks. Many of us here may look down on
> HyperCard, but somewhere there may be a person who graduated from MetaCard
> to C++ who is laughing at us. And that's not right either.
And yes, it is
It would seem I, along with Rob and Jaqueline, am among the minority on
this list who feel a loss.
Like many, I began with HC back in the early 1980's and the same spirit of
community and shared pioneering advancement was transfered to the SuperCard
list as many of us progressed with Allegiant. A
> From: Dave Cragg
> At 11:25 am +0200 30/3/01, Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
> >When an answer or ask dialog triggers a longer repeat loop (e.g.
> >colorizing particular strings in a fields with a greater number of
> >textlines or changing the color/shape of a greater number of graphics or
> >fields etc.)
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