As for Quark: they "ate us alive" (10's M's of $ over * of years, for -2
new features +3 new bugs) until we escaped into the only slightly more
benevolent world of Adobe CS. Re buy and kill off.. mTropolis, not a big
loss (we have Revolution) much greater tragedy was MS killing "Living
Cells" Now *that* was a truly new species of software that was made
extinct before it even got on it's legs.
Randall Lee Reetz wrote:
Am i the only one who thinks it is hilarious when hypercard and its xtalk progeny are refered to as
hypertext ore hypermedia environments or tools? Have you ever tried to emplement a true generlized
hyper-linking into your projects or stacks? There is absolutely no pre-built infrastructure for
"hyper" anything in xtalk. None! Just the word. The original snow job. The first
"branding" exercise. Enough b.s. to drive good old ted nelson crazy.
randall
ummm I guess it depends on your definition of Hyperlinking...
"Have you ever tried to emplement a true generalized hyper-linking into
your projects or stacks?"
Yes and my guess is so have many other's here... it's like, what... 5
lines of code? Of course "generalized hyper-linking" is not a
specification. I must have 20-30 different implementations of hyper
linking... depends on what you want to do...
I've been dynamically locking field in my on PIM for years and then
doing stuff with the clicktext of links.
there are any number of variations of what was probably one of the most
obvious uses of "hypertext" from the day I first open Hybercard in 1983
(or was it 86?... can't remember) it always qualified as "hypertext" to
me...
global gLastLineHandled
on mouseDown
if controlkey()="Down" then
set the locktext of the target to true
set the traversalOn of the target to false
choose browse tool
end if
end mouseDown
on mouseup
if the hilite of btn "organize" then put word 2 of the clickline into
gLastLineHandled
if optionkey()="Down" then
set the locktext of the target to false
set the traversalOn of the target to true
else
pass mouseup
end if
end mouseup
on linkClicked tSubject
findLinkedItems tSubject
put tSubject into gLastLink
end linkClicked
on makeLink
if the selection is empty then
answer "You need to select something." with "OK"
exit makeLink
else
put the selection into jai
set the textstyle of the selection to link
open stack "Linked Entries"
if exists (card jai) then
exit makeLink
else
new card
put jai into fld "Subject"
set the name of this card to fld "subject"
send upDateIndex to stack "linked Entries"
end if
end if
end makeLink
though, now, it looks like OmniFocus is a product that actually beats my
own PIM......
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