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From: jfadams@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Adams)
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Subject: Re: ToolBook/hypermedia/hypertext
Keywords: Hypermedia, hypertext, object, toolbook
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Date: 12 Jul 90 22:27:22 GMT
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In article <4909@milton.u.washington.edu> efowler@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Fowler) writes:
>
>I am interested in hearing from anybody who has had a chance to try
>ToolBook, Asymetrix' new product for Windows 3.0.  ToolBook is a
>multimedia/hypermedia toolkit, and contains it's own OOP language,
>OpenScript.  Any remarks &/or questions are welcome.  
>=Eric Fowler

I've been playing around with Toolbook for two weeks now.  I'm in the
midst of creating a "book" (or "stack") application that predicts
tides from NOAA harmonic constants.  As an authoring tool, it's quite
nice.  Unfortunately, as your book gets larger i.e. more pages and
cross-referencing are added, the speed decreases.  I'm using a 386/20
machine with 4Mb RAM and the performance is tolerable.  I can't see
using anything less than a 386, however.

Compared to Hypercard, Toolbook is its superset.  Spinaker Software is
currently developing PLUS for Win3 that is on the same order as
Toolbook, but affords conversion of Hypercard stacks to PLUS format.
PLUS looks more similar to Hypercard than Toolbook, however, through
graphics images (bitmaps) you can make Toolbook apps look like
anything you want.  I learned yesterday that a Hypercard stack
converter is to be released (by someone) for Toolbook.

In summary, Toolbook offers a quick and easy way to develop Win3
applications without investing time and $ in MSC & SDK.
-- 
James F. Adams       John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.        Everett, Washington USA
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