This package contains the HyperExtras Hypercard stack. This is a stack designed to help any Hypercard developer to do things more easily. It is not aimed at any particular type of development, such as quickTime, colour, hypertext, etc, but is designed as a general purpose tool for all hypercard development.
While this document is not intended as a replacement for either the notes in the stack, or the on-line help, it does give a quick run down on the stack, the functions it supplies, and its licencing.
Hyperextras is designed to be put in-use, and then accessed from the "Extras" menu while working in other stacks. It supplies a number of palettes and script functions.
INFO: stack size, freesize, version info, and heapspace, updated on idle.
LENGTH: number of chars in the current stack, background and card scripts.
MONITOR: pop-up menus of the windows, the stacks-in-use, and recently visited stacks with options to open or close, stop using, or go to them.
NUMBERS: current numbers of objects, cards, buttons, fields, etc.
MOUSE LOCATION: Rinaldi external with current mouseLoc and last mouseClick etc.
INFOID: Rinaldi external with info about the object currently under the mouse.
SCRIPT-TOOLS: search all scripts, extract all of the scripts in a stack to a TEXT file, compile a list of objects with scripts, compile a list of all handlers in selected objects and put it into a window, and show/hide the message and variable watcher.
OBJECT STORE:store objects in text files and recreate at will. Store fields and buttons for easy moving and adding.
REPORT: take info in the global HEXInfo, (used by a number of windows and scripts) and either show it in a window on the screen, or save it to a text file. You can use this for you opwn info.
MESSAGES: store common handy lines of hypertalk (or complete scripts) in this window for use during development, and use them as if from the message box. Kept between uses.
CD BTN INFO:Compiles a list of info about all the buttons on the current card.
CD FLD INFO:
BG BTN INFO:
BG FLD INFO:
As above for cd fld info.
LOOP FIND...:improved find command that allows you to repeat the find, try new words, find the current selection, remember the last search, count the number of occurences, and detect loops.
MOVE THINGS: drag any object (with no mouseDown handler) around the screen with the browse tool. Option-draging from a corner allows you to change the rect of the object.
The usual Shareware stuff. All code and ideas in HyperExtras are copyright to the author, D.Donachie. All XCMD's and XCFN's are copyright to their respective authors. You may freely distribute this stack as long as this file accompanies it. You may not sell this stack for profit and may not charge any fee for it other than for distribution or disk-duplication costs. You may keep and use HyperExtras for a limited period of time, but if you wish to keep it then you must send a registration fee of £5.00 sterling to the following address, David Donachie
18 Grosvenor cres.
Edinburgh
EH12-5EL
SCOTLAND
If you cannot send sterling then I will accept an equivalent sum in dollars, but pounds really would be better. If you wish to have any support, or to be able to recieve any future versions of HyperExtras then you must register.
