Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!herb-ox!campbell From: campbell@herb-ox.berkeley.edu (Robert I. Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: SuperCard and HyperDA Message-ID: <25822@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 27 Jun 89 21:14:40 GMT References: Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: campbell@garnet.berkeley.edu (Robert I. Campbell) Organization: Math Dept., UC Berkeley Lines: 22 In article petechen@topaz.rutgers.edu (Peter Chen) writes: > I am currently working for a computer lab, we are trying to establish >some on-line help by using HyperCard. There is some problems regarding this, >however. First, is it true that HyperDA does not handle graphics? Second, >what do the people who have tried SuperCard think of it? We are seriously >considering the option of developing in SuperCard. If anybody has solutions >to the problem with HyperDA or suggestions regarding SuperCard, I would very >much appreciate your reply. I have used HyperDA successfully for just the purpose you seem to be facing, and have found it to be quite adequate. It will work correctly with any pattern that you put on either a background or a card. I don't know if it implements the new "show graphics" and "hide graphics" HyperTalk commands (but I doubt that it does). There are some HyperTalk commands that it will not implement, but it is easy to write a good help stack avoiding these commands (the only gripe I had was that I couldn't implement selecting from a scrolling field of options, but I have learned to do without it). If you want, I can send you copies of a help stack for MPL (a share- ware BASIC interpreter) and for Mathematica, which I wrote to be read by HyperDA. - Robert Campbell -