Richmond You write «Why you should "pick on me" in regard to trying to convert stuff that must be, at the very least, 20 years out of date I don't know.» If I have bothered you you must excuse me. It surely wasn’t my intention. I must have mistaken your name for another. Regards Ingar
> 15. jan. 2019 kl. 19.17 skrev Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>: > > I did get 2 'odd' messages from you to me that seemed to be something quite > different, so I popped them > in my SPAM box. > > Why you should "pick on me" in regard to trying to convert stuff that must > be, at the very least, > 20 years out of date I don't know. > > On the very, very rare occasion I find a Hypercard stack that has a vaguely > interesting title > I have to do the following: > > Unearth either my G4 Mac Mini or my G5 iMac and run HyperCard in "Classic" to > look at the functionailty > and code. > > Rather than "fart around" converting stacks, my experience has been that it > is better to copy code across into > an LC stack running under RunRev 2, and then running that over to whatever > computer I happen to be > "in love with" at the moment. > > BUT, frankly, HyperCard is almost half my computer-life away (I'm 56 and > I started programming when I was 14 = 42) so when I really feel "fully retro" > I fire up my BBC Micro 1981 or my BBC Master 1988 and get "down and dirty" > with BBC BASIC, which, oddly enough, still has features LiveCode does not > (Sound Export . . .). > > Converting HyperCard stacks has been, in my experience, a waste of time: > the overhead of having to debug the resultant thing is far more trouble than > recreating the functionality in LiveCode. > > Anyone wanting to teach a Neanderthal to drive a car should NOT apply to me. > > Richmond. > > On 15.01.19 16:46, Ingar Roggen wrote: >> Dear all of you, - Richard, Richmond and the rest of the users of this list - >> as you may have seen I have tried to get an idea (an offer!) of what it may >> cost - what one would have to pay - for an app or some other solution to the >> problem of making "HC easily portable to LC and thereby accessible «to the >> rest of us" again?». Not having got any answer I give it one more try. >> Regards - Ingar >> >> >>> 3. des. 2018 kl. 02.55 skrev Richard Gaskin via use-livecode >>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: >>> >>> Ingar Roggen: >>> >>>> ...why not elaborate it to the tool, the app needed to make HC easily >>>> portable to LC and thereby accessible "to the rest of us" again? >>>> Anybody takes the challenge? >>> One could make HC's interface in LC. Anyone game? >>> >>> I once thought about doing it myself... >>> http://livecodejournal.com/features/the-true-power-of-hypercard.html >>> >>> -- >>> Richard Gaskin >>> Fourth World Systems >>> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web >>> ____________________________________________________________________ >>> ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
