Re: noob
Re: noob
- Subject: Re: noob
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:24:07 -0400
"Willem Perquin" wrote:
> Comming from REALBasic and Hypercard, I am looking for something else
> (RB is to expensive
Revolution offers a free version. It is quite a robust tool, much like
HyperCard. In fact, Revolution uses HyperTalk, and then adds many more
commands.
You create Stacks, which unlike HC can contain other stacks. You can build
your application for Mac or Windows (or Linux, IIRC), and the UI adjusts to
the appropriate interface graphics.
It's very cool, and is a full-fledged 'RAD' tool.
> Hypercard is extinct).
HyperCard is _not_ extinct. How dare you! :)
Seriously, not only is HyperCard alive and well in Revolution (and
SuperCard) but it's alive and well in many a household, classroom, and
kitchen. Revolution can read SuperCard files and HyperCard files, by the
way, and comes OS9 and OSX native.
Furthermore, HyperCard runs briskly and unfettered in my dining room, where
it is our central repository for:
all the coming and going notes and messages,
every recipe we've tried and 8,000 more we haven't,
an amazingly fast vitamins, minerals, compounds and foods stack,
stacks of Geometry theorems, postulates, proofs and animated diagrams,
pet notes and health care records,
every telephone number we've jotted down instead of wasting paper,
(and lightening fast search, of course ;),
and so on and on...
not to mention loads of 'zine stacks of all sorts of funky art, poetry,
Michael Green-esque "Zen and the Art of the Macintosh" stacks, a really
fabulous and funny Haiku maker, and...
HyperCard Rules!
But, if you need the modern sophistication and access to tools of OSX, have
you considered Smile as your application building environment? It has
interface building tools and is driven totally by AppleScript.
If only it could open HyperCard stacks... :-/
--
Gary
What happened to the HyperCard web browser plug-in?
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