On 26/9/01 10:39 pm, Douglas Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another fine article from Matt Neuburg > > === > > REALbasic for HyperCard Users > > REALbasic, the integrated development environment and application > framework from REAL Software, lets you draw an interface and assign > code to its pieces just like Apple's now outdated HyperCard. Matt > Neuburg shows HyperCard users the advantages and disadvantages of > using REALbasic. > > <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/09/20/realbasic.html>
Thanks for the link. Whilst it doesn't *explain* in so many words, the article does clearly *demonstrate* why a HyperCard developer might have reservations about switching to REALBasic. This paragraph from middle of the second page really summed it up for me: > This relies on two things we get for free in HyperCard: the clicktext > property, and the ability to "find." But we don't get either of those in > REALbasic! Thus we must implement them ourselves. So the first thing that the > txt EditField's mouseup event handler must do is to work out the "click text." > To do this, I start with the point of the selection and expand in both > directions until I hit a character that isn't a word character: What follows is a lot of code to implement a really short HyperTalk script. In fact, from the example provided in this article, I counted 52 lines to implement an 8 line HyperTalk script. Had Matt used Revolution, he wouldn't have needed to do that... Regards, Kevin Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.runrev.com/> Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer! Tel: +44 (0)131 718 4333. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707.
