Thanks for your help, Jacqueline! Mark
on 10/7/08 8:59 AM, J. Landman Gay at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mark Srebnik wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> Would like to convert a HyperCard Stack to Rev if possible. However, from >> reading Jacqueline's excellent tutorial on this I see the following >> problems. >> >> A) Since I use OSX on my MacBook at home, I don't have ability to run >> HyperCard; ie, no Classic anymore... >> >> B) Since I don't have HC to run and edit scripts before converting I can't >> >> 1) comment out XCMD's and FCN's as noted in tutorial... >> >> 2) edit script to change menu references.. >> >> >> Given the above, wondering if there's any workaround in order to do >> conversion??? > > Yes, though you can't do the (often required) "compact stack" part. You > can click the Messages button in Rev's toolbar to turn off messages. > This will eliminate any error reports while you go through the stack to > remove the handlers that are incompatible. > > It is very important to compact the HC stack in HC before importing > however. You may get lucky and things will run fine. But if you see > missing cards, scrambled data, or incorrect images (aside from the alpha > problem) then the stack needs compacting. On rare occasions an > uncompacted stack may not even import at all. > > You might look into SheepShaver or vMac -- I have run HyperCard on my OS > X Intel machine using both. Neither is a perfect solution, but both run > well enough to get the compaction done. I particularly like the > suggestion of running vMac/HC from a USB stick that I can just plug in > whenever I need it (but I've lost the link to that; maybe someone else > here still has it. You could try a Google on "vMac on a stick".) Ken Ray > has a tutorial on his web site on how to install SheepShaver, maybe > he'll chime in with that link. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
