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- From: urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban)
- Subject: Improving old stack
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.164700.11408@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Reply-To: urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban)
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:47:00 GMT
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- I am the author of one of the oldest HyperCard stacks around, the
- Esperanto Course stack. I would like to create a more up-to-date
- version of the stack (I already have had one major go-round to make it
- work sensibly with HyperCard 2.0).
-
- 1. I would like to jazz up a few of the cards with color. I only last
- week replaced my old MacPlus (ne'e 512K) with a color-capable machine,
- and am not really sure how best to proceed. What is the cheapest
- (free?) color-capable paint program that I can use to create the PICTs
- necessary for this task? What else will I need, and where do I get
- it?
-
- 2. The stack uses custom fonts to display the accented Esperanto
- characters. For a long time, I was able to get away with having the
- fonts glued into the stack itself as resources, but this strategy
- seems to be failing for some users recently. What is the right way to
- do this?
-
-
- Any other cute and snappy improvements that people can think up will
- certainly be helpful; I figure that there are many features in the
- more recent versions of HyperCard and in the freeware world of XCMDs
- that I am entirely unaware of, so replies of the form, `did you know
- that you can now (since 2.0.7) make HyperCard do such-and-so...' will
- be gratefully accepted (even if I already knew about the suggested feature)!
-
- Thanks in proverbial advance.
-
- Mike Urban
-
- urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov
-
-