The AOL HyperCard Scripting Conference Stacks are some of the
most comprehensive tutorial stacks ever written. Here they are, by
special arrangement with America Online.
The HyperCard Virus Compendium lists HyperCard viruses,
inoculations for your Home stack, information about commercial virus
checkers, and version 4.3 of Bill Swagerty's HyperCard virus eradicator
Vaccine, available for download.
HyperCard Tips and Tricks! A collection of some of the
slickest HyperCard tips, techniques, workarounds, code snippets and
hacks, submitted by our readers. We guarantee there is something in
here you don't know — browse the Tips and Tricks library and find out
what it is.
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Revolution and MetaCard
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Standalone Builder Reference Sheet An online copy of the reference sheet given out at the RevCon West conference in Monterey, California. This reference addresses additional topics you need to know when using the Revolution standalone builder. Find out about cross-platform icons and their formats, icon editors, installers, and other tidbits necessary to create a professional standalone. |
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What's a function? For those new to Transcript or programming in general, this article explains what a function handler is, how it differs from a command handler, and provides some simple examples of custom-made functions. |
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Introduction to
Revolution CGIs CGIs provide dynamic content to web sites, and
allow flexible delivery of information. This tutorial explains how to
use Runtime Revolution as a CGI engine on your server, and walks you
through several CGI examples written in Revolution's easy Transcript
language. |
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Shakobox: Scripted musical
notation in MetaCard and Revolution Scripted musical notation is
not natively available in MetaCard or Runtime Revolution. Now, for Mac and Windows users, there's a solution. |
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Polling the mouse in MetaCard and Revolution
Sometimes a script needs to determine the state of the mouse repeatedly
in order to perform a task such as dragging an object. If your script
is tracking the mouse within a repeat loop, it could lock up the
system. Here's a better way. |
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Converting
HyperCard Stacks to MetaCard or Revolution
Conversion of HyperCard stacks to MetaCard or Runtime Revolution is
easy if you have some basic information. Walk your way through a
step-by-step conversion tutorial. It works with the Runtime
Revolution trial version too. |
HyperCard
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HyperCard Success
Stories
What is HyperCard? Its versatility makes it tough to define. So to
answer that question, here are real-world examples from our readers
which will give you an idea of just what HyperCard is capable of —
possibly more than you ever realized. |
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AddColor Reference Stack
This tiny one-card stack gives you a quick reference for all the
HyperCard AddColor commands. There's a handy color picker, and it
auto-copies the syntax to the clipboard too. Free download. |
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Happy Birthday, HyperCard!
celebrates HyperCard's tenth anniversary with song and surprises. Free
download. |
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Bugs
in HyperCard 2.4
Here is information on OS 9 incompatibilities with HyperCard 2.4.1, as
well as descriptions of a standalone problem with HyperCard 2.4 and a
bug in the script editor which could cause you to lose your work. |
Articles and Downloads
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Casey's
Solitaire — it's definitely not your usual solitaire game.
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A Simple Adding and
Subtracting Machine is an intuitive, animated method for teaching
young children the concepts of addition and subtraction. Free download,
available for both Mac and Windows. |
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How To Test Your Stacks Some
bullet-proof suggestions for developers who want to release bug-free
work |
Miscellaneous
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Other hypermedia links and
resources |
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The best wrong number we ever
received. (Requires the QuickTime
Plug-in) |
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