At 23.05 +0200 09-07-05, Mark Schonewille wrote:
>I like SuperCard for being simple, reliable and stable. I also like it
>because it is very much Mac-like and because there are lots of useful
>externals available for free. I have used SuperCard to use several
>nice projects for clients of mine and always have lots of fun while
>working with it, while I'm always very frustrated about Revolution,
>where everything works more or less as expected but not quite. There
>are also a few things that are simply impossible with SuperCard, such
>as creating cross-platform software, which means that I still use
>Revolution for the majority of my projects. Obviously, I don't mean
>that everything is possible with Revolution. I believe both have their
>advantages and disadvantages and I don't regret having paid for either
>of them.

Since my experience is the opposite, that it was much easier
to migrate to Revolution than to Supercard, it is good
that there are two choices, so that more people are helped
by at least one of the systems.

I think Supercard might have made my migration easier if
there had been a good migration manual, describing which
Hypercard does not work and how to translate its functionality
to Supercard. Or even better, a tool which checks a stack
and marks what needs conversion. Maybe there are such guides
and tools, but if so why were they not included in the
Supercard delivery?

I agree that Revolution has its crincs, but it works,
and I never got my stack working with Supercard.
--
Jacob Palme <jpalme@...> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/