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- From: ward1@husc8.harvard.edu (Lester Ward)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: WindowScript (was Re: (Q) Colouring HC... once again
- Message-ID: <ward1.716500534@husc8>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 19:55:34 GMT
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- draper@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (E.J. Draper) writes:
- >I'm not so sure I'd give such a glowing report concerning WindowScript.
- >I've certainly experienced my fair share of serious BUGS with that
- >product. It's worth its purchase price as an aid to building fancy
- >Dialogs, but certainly it's no color "Front End" to HyperCard.
-
- Most of the bugs (and they were major) went away with the upgrade, but
- you are right, it could be more stable.
-
- As for being "no color 'front end' to HyperCard", you are also correct.
- WindowScript bypasses so many of HyperCard's dificiencies that HyperCard
- is more of a back end to WindowScript. I have not used any HyperCard
- cards for months and generall hide my stack so that all you see are
- window script windows.
-
- >ColorizeHC works well and the price is right (NIL)
-
- If you don't mind waiting 3 seconds for every card to come up.
-
- For those that have not seen WindowScript:
- Maker: Heizer software
- Cost: ~$100
- Current Version: 1.0.1
- System Requirements: HyperCard 2.x, 2Mb of RAM, color quickDraw iff you want
- to use QuickTime.
- Abilities:
- Window Script is an XCMD that lets you create color external windows, windoids,
- and dialogs for hyperCard. It includes predefined objects which are trivially
- included into these windows, such as lists, quick time movies, picts, buttons,
- pop-up menus, icons, display text, editable text, controls, etc.
-
- Each of these objects can hold scripts.
-
- Each type of object also comes with various properties (like font size, text,
- rect, etc) which can be set and reset from hyperCard. For example, the list
- object has a property which sets how items in the list are selected (single,
- range, etc).
-
- Color is no problem for WindowScript. Since it can display PICTs as part or
- all of the window, it can support millions of colors at once.
-
- I highly endorse this product for use in what HyperCard is best at: quickly
- prototyping software before writing it in a real language.
-
- Wordman
- Programmer, Harvard University
-