... Just a guess, but maybe AppleScript has problems with "push" (and "pop", I presume) because HyperCard stores the reference to the card in a "hidden"...
... what i eventually figured out was this: using terms from application "HyperCard" launch lock screen push card "(the name of card)" There is a crack in...
Hi there... please forgive me if this is a common question, but I haven't found the answer so far. My sister-in-law, when she was a child, created a little...
... There is only one choice available: Runtime Revolution. You can download a free player for Windows at <http://www.runrev.com>. Depending on the scripts,...
I was just perusing Revolution's website. I recal when Revolution was first introduced I was offered a beta copy and I didn't try it at the time. Then I ...
... was first ... time. Then I ... put me ... That was a loooooong time ago. Back when the engine was still called "MetaCard" there was only one license, for...
... Dreamcard is a fully-functional version of Revolution with a few minor exceptions: you can't build standalones with it, mainly. This is identical to how HC...
... I have bought DreamCard one month ago :-) it is just about HC; some differences ... 1) The "groups of objects" are like background if you check a box ...
Serge Ségu
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Jan 3, 2005 6:57 pm
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Thank you very much Jacqueline and Serge, for giving me the very opinions I sought... I am fascinated now. Do you know what they charge to upgrade from ...
Thank you very much Jacqueline and Serge, for giving me the opinions I sought... I am fascinated now. Do you know what they charge to upgrade from Dreamcard to...
No native speech synthesis (at least not in metacard; I have a rev license, for a platform i no longer use.... :/) Movie commands are different, i.e. new...
... --I believe that's since been fixed; even for Windows ;-) But for the life of me it's not clear why they had to muck with the syntax for it (e.g., why...
... You can upgrade to Revolution at any time for just the difference in cost between Dreamcard and Revolution. ... It takes a couple of months to get used to...
Was feeling a little nostalgic one morning and remembered my elementry school days of hypercard and later hyperstudio. Want to get more into programming and...
Also, standalones cannot be changed. I.e., you cannot have a standalone save changes to the standalone in MC (and I presume RR). In hypercard a standalone can...
... This is a cross platform issue. The only one of the RR supported platforms that allows an application to modify itself is Mac OS 9. No application in OS...
... I agree with what you are saying about OSX here, but doesn't SuperCard 4 standalones modify themselves? Pretty sure I saw they do. No idea how Solutions...
... --Not to be an apologist, but my understanding is that this particular idiosyncrasy of HC (which I also liked, btw), was not found anywhere else: certainly...
So, "RevGoURL" is the equivelant, then, as "open URL"? For my purposes, opening URLs is critical. Without that, Dreamcard would not make a very satisfactory...
Hi Rich ... That's a possibility. However I haven't seen any SuperCard standalones with ".app" after their names. Doesn't necessarily discount that SuperCard...
... Hi, At the moment SC standalones are not bundles, but apps with a resource fork. You can make them into bundles though and someone has made a project to ...
You simply must get v. 2.4. No comparison. Should be available on eBay. And then get "Hypertalk 2.2, the Book" and "The Complete Hypercard 2.2 Handbook" Still...
Control-Click the application in the finder and if you see "show bundle information" its a bundle. It has always been a packaging issue. WIth HyperCard your...
... Not true. Carbon apps can be self-modifying, if you mean that it can retain modifications like changes to scripts generated by the app, data in user...
... While possible, I wouldn't recommend it. In any multi-user system like OS X you have no assurance that the user has the necessary privileges to modify the...
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