Classic Mac OS programming tools. This way, a stack of cards with a common layout and functionality can be created. Hypermedia , software development. Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers with over 50 million reviews. This resulted in HyperCard 2. Views Read Edit View history.
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The Complete HyperCard Handbook : Danny Goodman :
Many of the HyperCard developers chose to stay at Apple rather than move to Claris, causing the development team to be split. Retrieved August 18, Its final release was inand it was totally discontinued in March In lateKevin Calhoun, then a HyperCard engineer at Apple, led an effort to upgrade the program. The new version included an on-the-fly compiler that greatly increased performance of computationally intensive code, a new debugger and many improvements to the underlying HyperTalk language.
Users can build backgrounds to suit the needs of some system, say a rolodexand use simple HyperTalk commands to provide buttons to move from place to place within the stack, or provide the same navigation system within the data elements of the UI, like text fields.
HyperCard has long been a leader here; even before MultiFinder, you could use HyperCard to launch another application, and return when it quit. Although HyperCard stacks do not operate over the Internetbyat least stacks were publicly available for download from the commercial CompuServe network which was not connected to the official Internet yet. During HyperCard's peak popularity in the late s, a whole ecosystem of vendors offered thousands of these externals such as HyperTalk compilers, graphing systems, database access, Internet connectivity, and animation.
The Choose message is not documented in the manuals; nor is the important new "run" message. Simple pop-up buttons are now a standard feature, with an interesting by-product that a button can now be a container.
It was also a key inspiration for ViolaWWWan early web browser. Claris also tried an interim scheme of shipping a crippled, low user-level, Home stack, which users could override by typing 'magic' in the message box.
Properties of palettes and external hypecard are not included in the Properties chapter. It is this combination of features that also makes HyperCard a powerful hypermedia system. How to create more sophisticated applications by means of the HyperTalk scripting language. Retrieved March 30, Because of the product's widespread use as a multimedia-authoring tool it was rolled into the QuickTime group.
The Complete HyperCard 2. BeeHive Technologies offered a hardware interface that allows the computer to control external devices.
The resulting HyperCard 3.
However, I was at first overwhelmed by the spectacular appearance of the Color Tools stack, and thought, "Wow, colored hypercars and fields look like this?!? Generous because it was originally given away free no more, alas! This fourth element, still residually present e. Other companies have offered their own versions.
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It was initially released in Augustwith the understanding that Atkinson would give HyperCard to Apple only if the company promised to release it for free on all Macs. Although stacks HyperCard program documents are not binary-compatible, a translator program another HyperCard stack allows them to be moved from one platform to the other.
Documentation — The documentation manuals and some stacks is good, but not uniformly so.
Objects can be double-clicked. Instead, the state of any object in the system is considered hypercarc be live and editable at any time. The beauty of HyperCard is that it lets people program without hylercard to learn how to write code — what I call "programming for the rest of us". Development continued with minor upgrades, and the first failed attempt to create a third generation of HyperCard.
Now, however, HyperCard accepts some different events, operating on 17 kinds of objects and their properties; it is thus scriptable, and you can control HyperCard from AppleScript or any other Apple event-sending mechanism.
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