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- Subject: Re: Hypercard GS upgrade
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.142236.27946@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:22:36 GMT
- Sender: David.Empson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
- References: <1992Jul25.121625.28083@crash.cts.com> <1992Jul27.175826.25043@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul27.175826.25043@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) writes:
- >
- > My question is... is the upgrade worth getting? I paid the original price
- > for Hypercard GS, and have had relatively no problems so far. What have they
- > changed/added for the new version?
-
- There aren't any mind-boggling new features, but quite a lot of small
- improvements. Here's a quick summary:
-
- - Bug fixes, in particular all known bugs that caused crashes.
- - Better handling of low memory situations, and somewhat better use of
- memory in general.
- - Speed improvements in HyperTalk and unpacking pictures (plus others).
- - The application is smaller on disk (but still needs 1.5 MB of RAM).
-
- - External commands/functions can create their own "windoids" (like the
- Message Box, Tool Window, etc.). These are referred to as "XWindows".
-
- - The "Compact Stack" command can optionally free up unused space in the
- stack's resource fork.
- - Buttons and fields can have background colours.
- - There is a new "Tune Builder" stack.
-
- The following features require System 6:
- - Sounds from the */System/Sounds folder can be played from HyperTalk.
- - Disk insertions are recognised, and blank disks can be formatted.
- - There is a new "Media Control" stack.
-
- New scripting features:
- - ItemDelimiter: allows lists to be separated by characters other than
- comma (e.g. colon, which makes it very easy to split up pathnames).
- - The "ask" command distinguishes between the user clicking "Cancel"
- and clicking "OK" with an empty string.
- - BackColor property (for fields and buttons).
- - New constants: Comma and Colon.
- - ClickLine and ClickChunk - make it easy to locate a mouse click in a
- field, useful for "hypertext" applications.
- - Lots of changes to support XWindows.
-
- --
- David Empson
-
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