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- From: Jon Wiederspan <jonwd@uwtc.washington.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: HyperCard 3.0 info
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:43:49 GMT
- Organization: Technical Japanese Program
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- In article <1993Jan20.090059.13300@waikato.ac.nz> Lawrence D'Oliveiro,
- ldo@waikato.ac.nz writes:
- > I gather SuperCard stores XCMDs and XFCNs in some funny way. One or two
- > people have reported trouble converting my Movie Conversion stack to
- SuperCard.
- > Needless to say, it works fine in HyperCard.
-
- (assume XCMD also refers to XFCN's)
- SuperCard does store XCMD's in a different way from HyperCard. While it
- is superior in terms of moving XCMD's in and out of projects, there are
- some XCMD's written for HyperCard which depend on being in the resource
- fork of the stack. These must be copied into the resource fork of the
- SuperCard project in order to work properly. I've never seen any notes
- or books which specified how to write XCMD's so they would work properly
- with SuperCard, but the notes do hint that any "properly" written one
- should work. This is, of course, the same defense Apple uses, even
- though they break their own guidelines on occasion.
- >
- >
- > I understand SuperCard completely lacks the new XCMD/XFCN callbacks
- introduced
- > in HyperCard 2.0 for handling external windows.
-
- I believe that SuperCard 1.6 can handle the HyperCard 2.0 callbacks.
- >
- > Lawrence D'Oliveiro
- > Self-confessed SuperCard ignoramus
-
- Jon Wiederspan
- Too lazy to read the manuals and find out for sure.
-