Need help opening a Macintosh Hypercard addess stack on a Windows PC with revolution

2005-11-28 Thread Debbie Segal
I downloaded Revolution because i was told it would be able to open my Macintosh formatted hypercard address stack on my Windows PC. I tried to open the stack using the File open stack command, but it did not see the stack in that window, so i changed the view to all files. Then it saw the

Re: Need help opening a Macintosh Hypercard addess stack on a Windows PC with revolution

2005-11-28 Thread Bill
Debbie: I'm sure everyone on the list thought someone else would answer your email. I am on a Mac platform and only use windows in an emulator but I think I can answer your question. I believe you need to send that hypercard stack to someone who has runrev on a mac platform and have them convert

Re: Need help opening a Macintosh Hypercard addess stack on a Windows PC with revolution

2005-11-28 Thread Bill
I just re-read your email and thought of something else. What did you mean by a bunch of errors? Maybe your runrev on windows is reading the hypercard stack. When you convert a hypercard stack to runrev there will be a number of things you have to change. For example the way hypercard does menus

Re: Need help opening a Macintosh Hypercard addess stack on a Windows PC with revolution

2005-11-28 Thread Ken Ray
On 11/28/05 9:36 AM, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debbie: I downloaded Revolution because i was told it would be able to open my Macintosh formatted hypercard address stack on my Windows PC. I tried to open the stack using the File open stack command, but it did not see the stack in that

Re: Need help opening a Macintosh Hypercard addess stack on a Windows PC with revolution

2005-11-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill wrote: Debbie: I'm sure everyone on the list thought someone else would answer your email. I am on a Mac platform and only use windows in an emulator but I think I can answer your question. I believe you need to send that hypercard stack to someone who has runrev on a mac platform and have

Re: Need help opening a Macintosh Hypercard addess stack on a Windows PC with revolution

2005-11-28 Thread kee nethery
Wonder if it would make sense for the runrev team to translate that specific HC stack (assuming they are using the one that was provided by Apple) and to build a hypercard based exporter/importer (in case they added some fields or buttons to the Apple stack). She could run the exporter and

Re: Need help opening a Macintosh Hypercard addess stack on a Windows PC with revolution

2005-11-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
kee nethery wrote: Wonder if it would make sense for the runrev team to translate that specific HC stack (assuming they are using the one that was provided by Apple) and to build a hypercard based exporter/importer (in case they added some fields or buttons to the Apple stack). She could

Re: Need help opening a Macintosh Hypercard addess stack on a Windows PC with revolution

2005-11-28 Thread Cubist
sez Debbie Segal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I downloaded Revolution because i was told it would be able to open my Macintosh formatted hypercard address stack on my Windows PC. I tried to open the stack using the File open stack command, but it did not see the stack in that window, so i changed the view

Re: Need help opening a Macintosh Hypercard addess stack on a Windows PC with revolution

2005-11-28 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] If, on the other hand, you're getting hey, I can't even READ this file!-type errors, there may be something odd about the HC stack. I would suggest that you open it up in HC, compact it three times, and *then* try opening it in Rev. The reason