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Scripting Help
(Don't forget that Help stacks come with the full version of HyperCard. If you don't find them in your HyperCard folder, check your original installation disks.)
"Quick, accurate, cross-referenced
help from a bonafide HyperCard guru. This stack is great!" -- America Online HyperCard Forum Staff
Don't miss this tremendous stack by Jeanne DeVoto, co-author of "HyperTalk 2.2: The Book." QuickRef provides syntax and a quick description for each HyperTalk 2.4 command, function, property, message and keyword, and is completely cross-referenced. The window size is small, so you can just to leave it open in a corner of the screen while you're scripting another stack. [by Jeanne DeVoto, 182 K]
This classic stack was created in 1990 for MacUser
Magazine by Rand and Robyn Miller of Cyan,
the company that's used HyperCard to make a series of best-selling games,
including Myst and Riven. This lighhearted stack demonstrates several scripting
techniques and has delightful graphics, sound effects, and animation. [by
Rand and Robyn Miller, 152 K]
"Great
Stack! Really useful! -- AOL HyperCard Forum Staff
This stack explains and demonstrates many techniques which you might find helpful in your own stack development. Some of the techniques include creating spreadsheet-like fields, field validation, animation with moving fields, inverted text, read from text files, date of last change, and much, much more. [by Genevieve Crabe, 66K]
This simple, one-card stack has all the AddColor
command syntax in one place, for those times when you can't remember exactly
what all those parameters are supposed to be. Syntax is copied to the clipboard
with a click, ready to paste into your scripts, and if the "Always
Copy" button is checked, you don't even need to click. It's tiny enough
to tuck into a corner of the screen, and the Utilities button has a quick-access
color picker too. [by HyperActive Software, 76K]AOL Scripting Conference Stacks
NOTE: The links below take you to the HyperActive Software site, where you can download these stacks. Use your Back button to return here.
'The tutorial stacks that the staff has produced are
simply outstanding."
-- HyperCard mailing list subscriber
These outstanding stacks were created
by scripting experts for a series of HyperCard Scripting Conferences on
America Online.
Each conference presented a specific HyperCard-related topic, examined in detail. A HyperCard expert prepared a topic stack for members to download and study before the conference discussion.
Each stack contains not only a complete discussion of how a particular aspect of HyperCard works, but also scripting examples, working models, and in some cases toys and games, to demonstrate the ideas being presented.
These stacks are a wealth of information, beautifully presented.
