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From: jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: I wish to compile a list of all the short comings of SUPERCARD
Message-ID: <1364@atux01.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 89 17:08:18 GMT
Organization: AT&T CSEd/CET, Piscataway, N.J.
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I have recently purchased SuperCard and have also been following the
comments some of you have posted regarding it.  I have not yet, however, begun
to program in SuperCard myself.  I too, am concerned about several things I HAVE
heard on the net, or read in the owner's manual, such as:

1)  Any stand alone document automatically becomes 350K in size,

2)  All design/programming work must be done in SuperEdit,

3)  Only a limited ability to run/test your scripts while in SuperEdit,

4)  The scripts, whether converted from HyperCard or created in SuperEdit, run
    MUCH SLOWER than the same (funtionality-wise) stack written in HyperCard.

These all seem to me to be MAJOR deficiencies in SuperCard.  Since I have not
yet sent in the big 5"x7" comment postcard Silicon Beach includes with the
package, I would like to ask those of you SuperCard users out there to send me
a list of your concerns, comments, and suggestions for improvements to
SuperCard which I would like to include in my postcard/letter to Silicon Beach.
I think this might be a way to get Silicon Beach's attention, and optimize
their response/resolution to these concerns in future releases of SuperCard.

Please e-mail me your concerns in a list format.  I will also try to post the
list to the net (since others of you may find it useful).

Thanks for your contributions.

						Jim Collymore