When I discovered Metacard (as a basement, part time software developer, always hoping to make money, but never quite....) I too was tanatlised and frustrated by the 10 line limit. I could load all my HC stacks and they would *almost* run on all three platforms! But the 10 line limit meant I couldn't fix anything. I had to take on trust that HC could be tweaked and run with cosmetic changes. I moaned on the MC list. Then I started to script from scratch using all the tricks I could think of and gleaned from the MC list. I couldn't afford to buy the full version, and for 2 years felt guilty that I enjoyed so much the scripting and building, and the list, without paying a penny. I wrote all sorts of stuff that is being used on an NHS Intranet to do interesting and useful things. I also wrote something within the 10 line limit that IS going to make me some money. (Any day now.) Seriously, yesterday I presented it at a conference and got a real buzz from its reception. OK, so once I got my Rev licence and finished the application off, I couldn't be arsed to make my scripts, fast neat or short (speed is not an issue here), so technically, the whole thing isn't a starter kit project. But it could have been. And it knocks socks off most of the psychological assessment software that I have seen, if I say so myself. So whats my point? I suppose it is that I know what you mean. But I have tried Director, RealBasic, Supercard and the very late mTropolis. I had fun while it lasted, but for me the MC (oops, RV) starter kit is an astonishing gift, and kept me hooked until i could afford the licence. Stick witrh it. David Glasgow PS Not sure from your post but just wanted to confirm that you but you can run anything just not edit it over 10 lines >From: Dominique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Rev's pricing model >Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:25:56 +0200 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" >References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Beruvin ecrivait / wrote: > >>>Under 10 lines, the examples, please ;-))) > >>Too high for a student (thanks to Judy Perry) or even a hobbyist at home. >>You are more lucky if you work on a mac, train yourself scripting on >>HyperCard ! > >That's the point ;-) > >My response was inspired in fact by the samples furnished with MetaCard: >I can't run some of them since they exceed 10 lines ;->
