On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Charles Hartman wrote:
> Right. There's the point. When you buy something like Hypercard, or > Dreamcard, you're buying a GUI builder and programming lanuage. But a > GUI builder and programming language in which you can't control the > screen even to the extent of getting rid of a backdrop sounds to me > like a parameterized PowerPoint. The feature-comparison page on the > web site (Media can't connect even to a mySQL database, can't do CGI, > but has nice "templates" for people who don't want to program > anything) says pretty plainly that Media is no replacement for > Dreamcard. --For the price -- roughly half of what Hypercard last sold for -- it seems fair enough. Can you do mySQL and CGIs in PowerPoint? (not being nasty: I really don't know but doubt it as I don't think it has a scripting language). As for templates, I, for one, am doing the Snoopy dance. Hypercard had them and some of us have been asking for this for a very long time (although I recall being the very person who's complained about them in other apps) @;-) Judy _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
