At 6:53 AM -0700 8/30/2001, Rob Stevenson wrote:
>I should state my personal bias here. I don't get paid for prgramming -
>so $350 is not happenin' for me. And $995 is in another galaxy. I've
>downloaded the free trial version, but I don't think I can even make new
>versions of the many tools I created in HyperCard, because I trained
>myself to program in 2 main places - the background script and the stack
>script. All other objects had very short scripts which simply passed the
>action on to those main scripts. I'd hate to start to make spagetti code,
>after all that effort learning to do it 'right'.
Just a note here - your method is actually quite similar to one of the
methods Raymond discusses in "Using the Starter Kit". You can use the
insert script command to place objects in the message path. These would
hold your routines, and might be invisible controls or "ghost" groups that
contain no controls. Then your objects would have short scripts, as now,
that call those routines.
I think it's probably possible to continue using the Starter Kit the way
you describe using HyperCard, with some slight adjustments (mostly putting
routines in different objects rather than all in a stack or background).
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