"As a follow-up to the PARC designs, the best thing I've seen in the right direction was Bill Atkinson's Hypercard, which was not as general as our ideas but...
At 10:16 PM -0400 on 11/4/08, KA4HJH wrote "As a follow-up to the PARC designs, the best thing I've seen in the right direction was Bill Atkinson's Hypercard,...
My father used to be a part of this Yahoo group has used Hypercard since the beginning and created an amazing program for our magazine business. It did many...
Send it to me. I am sure it is bad data in a field that is causing the error. I see this often , where the original programmer did not validate data before ...
With HyperCard it's possible to make a stand alone application, or run the program you've made as a document, using HyperCard itself. From what you say it's...
... On the other hand, if I am correct about the problem, go back to the field that contains the data you are working with, and carefully select everything in ...
... As you can see, me and Craig are both suspecting the same issue. About the text in a field, you should be able to click into the field and do a Command-A...
Hi, I'm amazed at the quick response! This is the order of what happens by the time the script window pops up: I go to a menu called "extract" then I select...
... Pretty sure that's an email interpretation of the "not equal" symbol. Can you look a little earlier in the script for where theTable is set? [Non-text...
This is the complete script for extracting statements: on allStatements parm global withDirectory, gDBFolder if the stacks contains "Receipt Book" then close...
Hello mikemonner and y'all, ... We are indeed a very HELPFUL group/community. This degree of help is what sets our community apart from most of the rest. We've...
I wasn't sure you would want to view the whole script but here it is: on resumeStack select empty end resumeStack on resume select empty end resume on mouseup ...
... You seem to be comfortable roaming around the scripts, more than your average HyperCard beginner! Can you tell us what field "invoice" contains at the time...
Extracting invoices hasn't been an issue. Luckily, it works fine. It's extracting financial statements that hasn't been working. We just got a huge bill from...
Next time it shows the error, choose Debug, and once you're in there look for something called Variable Watcher in one of the menus. Open Variable Watcher,...
This would be a snap if I could open the stack and track the error. Anyone who responded could as well. Trying to figure it out from reading the long scripts...
I guess there's no option to save a stack. I'd be happy to send someone these hypercard files but they do have customer info. I can only compact, protect,...
... Somewhere in the Finder is the stack itself. Maybe there's a title in the window that can help you track it down? Or make a change somewhere (or do a...
Hello all, I just joined this group and am excited to finally find that there are others out there that are appalled that HyperCard is not supported in OSX. I...
... Welcome! ... Unfortunately it's been clear for many years that Apple isn't going to do that. We tried letters, petitions, and everything else we could...
hcheaven@...
Dec 29, 2008 7:04 pm
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I share your enthusiasm for Hypercard. Nothing takes it's place as far as that magic feeling and super-stability and simplicity (not to mention autosaving,...
... feeling ... will ... another. I ... software (it's ... personal ... organizational ... intuitive ... was ... Marc, I like the analogy to a Swiss Army...
... Yep, but that's been tried years ago and Apple wasn't interested. And even if Apple decided to sell it now, HC would need a MAJOR update to be competitive...
hcheaven@...
Dec 31, 2008 12:26 am
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Hi folks, ... That's certainly true. Actually. I'd think creating an 'update' would be _more_ than a major update. Any attempt to use the original source would...
Hello everyone, I downloaded the trial version of SuperCard, but it will not open my stacks. A dialog comes up that says something to the effect that there is...
... Kent, You should join the Supercard list. It's a very active and helpful list. mailto:SuperCard-subscribe@yahoogroups.com...
Haroldo Mauro Jr.
hmauro@...
Jan 2, 2009 4:09 pm
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Howdy Kent, Yep, c'mon over to the SC list. We'd love to see you there! Many SC'ers are former HC'ers, most notably John Johnston, a teacher in Scotland with...
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