Brag a little -- share a trick!

Do you have a favorite HyperCard trick or tip? Maybe you know of an unusual or undocumented feature, or perhaps you have discovered an easy way to do something, or you've invented an elegant technique. Share your best HyperCard solutions by filling out the form below. Your tip will be reviewed and the best will be published here. The list will be updated periodically as new tips come in.

Techniques, shortcuts, hidden features, and descriptions of scripting how-to's are all likely candidates for a listing. Short, elegant scripts will also be considered, but due to space limitations we cannot publish excessively long scripts. If you give permission, your name (and title and/or company, if you like) will be included. If you provide a URL to your web site, it will be linked to your name.

Submission Guidelines

• Please proofread your text carefully before sending it. Double-check all information for accuracy. Then check it again.
• If you do submit scripts, keep them short and elegant. Long script submissions cannot be published. Script excerpts and snippets are fine -- an entire handler is not required. Since the intent of the Tips List is to be an idea and technique exchange rather than a script repository, we aren't looking for handlers so much as the ideas and processes that run them, especially those that can be applied generally by others in their scripts. Naturally though, if you have an elegant, beautiful bit of scripting wizardry, we'd like to list it here.
• If your tip is for a specific version of HyperCard, be sure to specify the version in your description. Many previous techniques became obsolete as newer versions of HyperCard were released. For example, techniques for tracking specific cards in HyperCard 1.x were very useful, but became unnecessary after HyperCard 2.0 introduced the "marked" function.
• We reserve the right to edit submissions for clarity or brevity if necessary.
• It may be necessary to remove older items from the Tips List as more recent tips are published.
• Any topic related to HyperCard development is fair game. Do you know a workaround for a bug or anomaly? Do you do work with sound recording? QuickTime or animation? Color? How about databases, applications development, remote access or telecommunications? Whatever you do with HyperCard, you have probably solved a tricky problem to get it done.

  Brag a little. Tell us.

Here's my tip:

Your tip or trick:

Your name:
Your title and/or company:
Your email address:
Your web site address:
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Should we link to your web site? Yes No

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