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Writing
about HyperCard (StackChat)
Selected articles from an occasional series written
for MACinations, the monthly magazine of Club Mac (Sydney,
Australia), on the subject of HyperCard.
HyperCard?
Is that still around?
(Feb. 2001) A brief history of the most empowering software ever
written and a discussion of its future
What's
the Hype about HyperCard?
This two-part article describes what HyperCard is and what
you can do with it.
Part
I (Jun./Jul. 1992): Basic concepts
Part
II (Aug. 1992): A peek "under the hood".
HyperCard
/ Hypertext / Hypermedia
(Sep. 1994) This article began life as a tutorial stack for the
Club Mac HyperCard Special Interest Group. It demonstrates how HyperCard
can be used to create online documents with hypertext and hypermedia
features with a minimum of scripting.
Get
the Picture!
(1992) Unlocking the power of the "picture" (external)
command.
Exporting
from HyperCard
While having text broken up into cards and fields in HyperCard makes
information easier to find and manipulate, there are times when
you want to get pieces of text, or all the text from one or more
cards, into one file for editing and/or printing with a word processor.
This article gives you the tools you need to do this.
An
"Extensions Folder" for HyperCard
(Jun./Jul. 1994, altered 1997) How to automatically add extra features
to HyperCard everytime you launch it, simply by putting stacks (or
their aliases) into a special folder.
Target
Practice
(Aug. 1994) How to save time and make your scripting more efficient
by harnessing the power of "the target".
Quantum
Leap: HyperCard at The Art Gallery of New South Wales
(March 1997) Many people already known that HyperCard is a great
tool for creating quick-and-dirty solutions, prototyping applications
relatively easily and of course for creating interactive multimedia.
But it can't create 'real', multi-user, database-type applications,
can it? Yes it can, as this article demonstrates.
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