Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!agate!shelby!polya!Feanor!jwl From: jwl@Feanor.Stanford.EDU (John Lockhart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: UltraCard (was: hypertext on amiga) Summary: Not *that* bad, but needs bug squashing still Keywords: UltraCard, hypertext, hypercard, ARexx, UltraTalk, potential Message-ID: <10609@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 14 Jul 89 19:50:24 GMT References: <12623@well.UUCP> <170@modcomp.UUCP> <769@wsu-cs.uucp> <415@tardis.Tymnet.COM> <7306@ecsvax.UUCP> <1285@mcrware.UUCP> Sender: USENET News System Reply-To: jwl@Feanor.Stanford.EDU (John Lockhart) Organization: Very much lacking. Lines: 61 In article <1285@mcrware.UUCP> tim@mcrware.UUCP (Tim Harris) writes: > I don't own the official version of UltraCard but did get ahold of the >browser and sample stacks which were posted on CIS recently. Last night I I haven't used the browser, but I do own the product... > From the 15 minutes >I played with it I found I visited the guru more than a devout Yogi would. >Specifically from the ControlRoom stack I could do info and programs and I had the exact same problem with the product---when I first started up after installing it on my hard drive, it was Crash City. The workaround? Instead of clicking on the UltraCard icon, click on one of the stack (project) icons to start. There seems to be an odd bug afflicting the Control Room and other bits. After crashing all over the place and then finding a partial workaround, I spoke with the program's author, Mike Lehman of Intuitive Technologies. He was very, very helpful---he even squashed an UCard bug during the conversation. There will be a new browser release RSN, to be followed by a new release of the full UC. Intuitive Tech's upgrade policy is good--- send them your old master disk and they send it back with the new software on it. >listen to my Amiga speak, I could NOT do the more... option without a visit >from the guru. In the calendar stack I could look at the dates set on the >calendar for this month but when I tried to set a new date I instead saw the >guru. From UltraDex I could sort and go to the first and last stack item >but got a guru doing a find. I didn't have these problems---before I found the workaround, I kept crashing in the Help stack. I started up the calendar and UltraDex stacks, and didn't crash (Workbench click-on-project-type startup). I did notice that the built-in editor is incompatible with fastfonts, just as Maxiplan was. Mike Lehman says that the guy who wrote that code isn't working for Intuitive Tech. any more, and the code will be changed RSN, so folks (like me) who use FF to replace Topaz will be a lot happier. > Now I'm not saying UltraCard isn't neat or anything, just a bit buggy in >the version of the browser that was posted. It is fairly quick though, I ran >it off of my hard drive and it didn't have any real delays in it at all. The Yes. The only problem I would see is for floppy-drive users----when you start making changes to stacks, they can grow quickly in file size, at least until you use the 'Compact Stack' option. Mike said that this, too, is in for a rev... [lotsa stuff deleted---including, I'm afraid, a conditional clause.] >I'll wait until until 1.1 comes out before I spend my money. > Tim Harris Can't say I blame you. But 1.1 should be out pretty soon now (current rev is 1.01a). After talking with the author, I have a lot more confidence that the next version will be much more stable and even more usable. He also has some nifty ideas for future enhancements.... Keep an eye on this product...It has a *lot* of potential. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- John Lockhart jwl@feanor.stanford.edu BIX: jlockhart