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  2. From: jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
  4. Subject: Re: Word 5.1 & AppleEvents
  5. Message-ID: <74320@apple.apple.COM>
  6. Date: 16 Nov 92 00:38:15 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov11.232622.30978@fourd.com> <jpugh-131192215659@kip2-50.apple.com>
  8. Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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  12. In article <jpugh-131192215659@kip2-50.apple.com> jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
  13. writes:
  14. >A lot of current program implementations don't use these object specifiers
  15. >(Hypercard doesn't) because it is a lot easier to use a custom parameter
  16. >system when writing the code.
  17.  
  18. It wasn't a matter of ease of implementation.  HyperCard 2.1 doesn't
  19. understand object specifiers because they hadn't yet been finally defined
  20. when HyperCard 2.1 shipped, concurrently with System 7.0 in May of last
  21. year.  It would be wonderful to have a version of HyperCard that fully
  22. supports the Apple Event Object Model; I wish it had been possible back
  23. then.
  24.  
  25. Kevin Calhoun
  26. jkc@apple.com
  27.