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From: dave@etsu.CMI.COM (David Halonen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hypercard running in background?
Summary: No!
Message-ID: <642@etsu.CMI.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 89 13:18:00 GMT
References: <333@nanovx.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@etsu.cmi.com.UUCP (David Halonen)
Organization: Center for Machine Intelligence, Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <333@nanovx.UUCP> kaz@nanovx.UUCP (Mike Kazmierczak) writes:
>Can HyperCard run in the background?

No.  Unfortunately the event loop in HyperCard is pretty complicated
(so I've been told).  Its unfortunate, because we'ld like to use it as
a prototyping tool that could receive AppleTalk messages in the background.

I believe SuperCard has the same limitation.



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David Halonen, Center for Machine Intelligence, Electronic Data Systems
Ann Arbor, MI  (313) 995-0900
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