Table of Contents

• Introduction

• General Guidelines

• Pre-Import

• Post-Import

• The Title Card

• The About Card

• The Records Cards

• The Tips Card

• The Timer Cards

• About MetaCard Menus

• Adding a Menu Bar

• Editing the Stack Script

• Color Guidelines

• Optimizing - Timed Events

• Optimizing - About Box Substack

• Optimizing - Index Palette

• Other MetaCard Features

How to Access MetaCard Features and Scripts

The Control Browser is a very useful MetaCard tool that gives you immediate access to all stack objects, their scripts, and their properties, whether the object is visible on the card or not. In all cases throughout this tutorial where access directions to an object's script or properties are suggested, you may use the Control Browser instead, and in most cases it is the easiest way. The Control Browser is located under MetaCard's Tools menu. A few alternate shortcuts are given in the table below primarily for reference, because many of them are identical to HyperCard's.

Note for Runtime Revolution users: Runtime Revolution uses different access techniques. See the Runtime Revolution documentation for more specific information on accessing scripts and tools.