Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!sparc1!test From: test@sparc1 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Intuition Interface Builders ? Message-ID: <1990Jun15.183450.4290@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 15 Jun 90 18:34:50 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 21 I've just gotten started using CANDO. It's a very slick hypermedia program designed for the Amiga (what-- not ported from Messy-DOS?) that appears to do the vast majority of what Hypercard does, with a lot of extra features, like variably-sized windows, and the stacks that you create can be compiled into a freely-distributable program (although some stacks may make use of a library that comes with CANDO; if you use this library, you have to make arrangements with INOVAtronics). It's not as versatile as a programming language, obviously, but it has a well-designed scripting language, and scripts can be created that are carried out under specific situations: when a card is first put on the screen, after the card is on the screen, when the card is removed, when the mouse is clicked on a button, when the mouse button is released while on a card's button... and lots more besides. The company has a (non-toll-free) support line; when I've called, my questions were answered by the person who answered the phone-- I've never had THAT experience before! All in all, it's a great program for less than $100 (mail order price, that is), if you don't need absolute control over every aspect of what's on the screen-- the shape of the gadgets, etc. Dave Witzany witzany@sparc1.isgs.uiuc.edu