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- From: jbell@garnet.berkeley.edu (John E. Bell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: What is WindowCraft?
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 05:31:17 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- WindowCraft does permit conversion of HyperCard 2.1 stacks into Windows 3.1
- applications. THe scripting language is very similar to HyperTalk (mostly
- identical) except for:
- - some missing aspects including: "there is a", grouped text, character
- styles within a text field
- - many bugs including: a string length problem which adds garbage to the
- end of text fields durin gthe conversion and prohibits the use of
- 'char last of x' type references and affects other character references
- - some changes such as: it implements multiple windows in a stack instead
- of allowing multiple stacks to run together (except as separate applications)
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- The folks at WindowCraft have been very helpful in finding workarounds for
- most of the problems I've run into. However, much of my task in conversion
- is trying to identify what their bugs are and how I can work around them.
- In short, given that I needed a conversion of HyperCard on Windows right
- away, I'm thankful for WIndowCraft. If I could have waited, however, I
- would much rather have used a newer release (nothing has been announced).
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- - John E. Bell
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