Sound in Animation - HCSC 040395 (271760 bytes)
This file contains narratives discussing the use of SND (sound) resources in HyperCard stacks, accenting sounds used to enhance animation effects. See the prior topic stack "Sounds In HyperCard" for sound basics and examples as part one of this topic.
Authored by MHC Scripting Conferences Coordinator Jeff Crossley of CTEK Services, this topic will enhance your understanding of sound implementation in HC.
The information is organized within the shell of a standard Conference Reference Stack. Animations and resources are contained within this stack and include:
- selected music notations for a baker's dozen of old time favorites (notation by others).
- sound resources including thunder, reed, pipe, burning fuse, fused explosion, gunshot and others.
- animation of a click and light cigarette lighter that lights a fused bomb which can be thrown and explodes.
- animation of an old style telegraph key which spits out the text of messages entered via dialog as a text stream with sound and key movement
- "Cyber Encounters" a whimsical B&W and color animation on a single card with some inversion tricks
- a pistol that fires.
- Old West fort gates that open an close with latch, lock, and squeaky hinge sounds.
- numerous custom icons
This is the Topic Reference Stack presented at the MHC Scripting Conference on Monday, April 3, 1995.
Parameters - HCSC 041795 (83812 bytes)
This stack contains narratives and scripts explaining the use of parameters for passing data from one handler to another handler, function or external.
Authored by MHC Scripting Conferences Coordinator Jeff Crossley of CTEK Services, this topic may enhance your understanding of how parameters carry data around in HyperTalk.
The information is organized within the shell of a standard Scripting Conference Topic Reference Stack. This is the topic reference stack presented at the MHC Scripting Conference on Monday, April 17, 1995.
Functions - HCSC 042495 (118668 bytes)
This stack contains a library of approximately 30 custom functions contributed by the following MHC Scripting Conferences mentors, staff and guest wizards:
- AFA Jacque
- AFC James
- DDrucker
- FORAKER
- Gergory
- MacBrett
- Robert RHowe HMD
- HyperJEFF
The example functions include a diversity of solutions, including swapping date formats, controlling user input for data as complicated as Social Security number entry, record entry validation, text manipulation (case switches), and a host of other uses that you can plug into your own stacks. The diversity and excellance of the scripting in these custom functions show various approaches and styles in creating similar solutions.
The stack topic narratives define functions, both program and custom functions, demonstrate the syntax unique to both forms of functions and explain how to call and write custom functions.
This is one of those - "ya really should have" contributions to our library.
The information is organized within the shell of a standard Scripting Conference Topic Reference Stack. This is the topic reference stack presented at the MHC Scripting Conference on Monday, April 24, 1995.
Dialogs - HCSC 050195 (136824 bytes)
This stack contains narratives and scripts explaining the use of HyperCard's "answer" and "ask" commands which present users with interactive dialogs.
Authored by MHC Scripting Conferences Coordinator Jeff Crossley the bundle includes an auto scripting stack for both answer and ask dialog commands that allow the user to visually compose dialogs by entering the prompt text in a field sized to match the normal dialog window then view the text as a dialog and then automatically script the dialog creation script, test it, copy it and save it to a library within the stack.
The narrative information is organized within the shell of a standard Scripting Conference Topic Reference Stack. This is the topic reference stack presented at the MHC Scripting Conference of Monday, May 1, 1995.
HyperCard Windows - HCSC 052995 (163049 bytes)
This stack contains narratives, demonstrations, scripts, tips, and resources to help scripters understand and manage HyperCard windows (cards, palettes, pictures, movies, etc.)
Authored by MHC Scripting Conferences guest wizard Stu MacKenzie (HyperSTUff), noted external command developer and scripting authority, this stack tells it all about HyperCard's window environment.
Stu's narratives are extremely well written and provide both the novice and expert scripter with a clear understanding of how windows view your stack data, display pictures and movies - and how you can control your visual environment.
Stu's written style mirrors his online wit - a wry smile on every card. The narratives are replete with hypertext functionality to demonstrate each example with a click as you read about it. The information is organized within the shell of a standard Scripting Conference Topic Reference Stack. This is another outstanding effort by a guest scripting wizard that you'll want for your own scripting reference library.
This is the Topic Reference Stack discussed at the MHC Scripting Conference on Monday, May 29, 1995.
AS A BONUS ... Stu has created and bundled an external to determine the AddColor externals installed in stacks ... a help in managing HyperCard 2.3's duality in running on 68K and PowerPC environments.
HyperCard Text-to-Speech - HCSC 052295b (177986 bytes)
+ Staff Pick -- one of the most popular scripting conferences, featuring one of the most popular guest wizards. Also includes the 'JabberMac' stack.
Authored by MHC Scripting Conferences guest wizard Mark Klink (MKlink), a great HyperCard and externals developer, this stack contains everything you need to know about speech on a Mac regardless of what version of HyperCard you are authoring in, including information about HyperCard 2.3 which has built-in speech capability.
The stack contains instructions on how to get a copy of the Speech Manager while logged on to AOL, and it can use XFCNs to access the Speech Manager. Even if you don't run the demos, you'll find useful information. Aside from a basic introduction to how the Speech Manager works, and how you can access it using either HC 2.3 or externals, this stack shows you ways to use Text-To-Speech in your stacks. It also tells you about embedded speech command syntax and phonetic text. These are methods (undocumented in the HC 2.3 package) that greatly increase your control over how the Speech Manager pronounces text. The stack includes numerous spoken examples and and even annimations with speech.
This is an outstanding effort and belongs in every scripter's personal reference library. This is the topic reference stack discussed at the MHC Scripting Conference on Monday, May 22, 1995.
Hot HyperText - HCSC 012395 (83308 bytes)
This stack contains narratives and scripts demonstrating strategies for implementing HyperText (Text that causes an action to occur when the user clicks on it.)
Authored by MHC Scripting Conferences Coordinator Jeff Crossley, the stack provides numerous examples and a script library to assist authors in creating HyperText environments in their own stacks.
The narrative information is organized within the shell of a standard Scripting Conference Topic Reference Stack. This was the topic reference stack discussed at the MHC Scripting Conference on Monday, January 23, 1995.
PopUp Buttons - HCSC 051595 (134844 bytes)
This stack contains narratives and scripts explaining the use of HyperCard 2.2's popup buttons (menus) and third party externals that can provide popup funcitionality to HyperCard versions earlier than 2.2, and hierarchial popups (popout submenus) not available in HyperCard 2.2.
Authored by MHC Scripting Conferences Mentor Robert Howe (RHowe HMD) who also authored "HCSC 022095 Improving HC Speed" - our all time highest download count topic, this is another great stack.
Here is a quote from Robert's Introduction Card:
This stack covers HyperCard 2.2's popup buttons. For those of you who are using an earlier version of HyperCard, stick around, as we'll discuss using externals to give you popup capabilities!
Specifically, we'll cover:
A) The Apple Human Interface Guidelines for Popup menus.
B) How to use HC's popup button - for HyperCard 2.2 users...and some limitations of HC's popup.
C) The Human Interface Guidelines for Hierarchical Popup menus.
D) The capabilities of some Hierarchical Popup Externals so that users of HC 2.1 (or earlier versions) can get simple popup functionality; and so that everyone can have hierarchical popup functionality.
The narrative information is organized within the shell of a standard Scripting Conference Topic Reference Stack. Robert has provided many interactive examples and shared many scripts that exploit the use popups, as well as great narratives containing interface guidelines, tips on when, why, and how to use popups, and step by step instructions for creating popups with HC 2.2.
This is an outstanding effort and belongs in every scripter's personal reference library. This is the topic reference stack discussed at the MHC Scripting Conference on Monday, May 15, 1995.
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