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From: chh9@quads.uchicago.edu (Conrad Halton Halling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Things I won't miss in Hypercard 2.0
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Date: 28 Aug 90 21:47:02 GMT
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I got flamed a little [it barely singed my hair :-) ] because 
   1)  I'm posting bugs that have been discussed previously and
   2)  I'm way past the window for bug fixes in HyperCard 1.2.5.

Well, these bugs are new to ME, and I haven't seen any discussion of them
on this forum (which I've been reading for two months, when I began a
multi-stack project).  I'm using Danny Goodman's _The Complete HyperCard 
Handbook_, 2nd ed., and he doesn't discuss any of these bugs.  Maybe
they're in other books, but why buy them when 2.0 will be out soon?
I know bug fixes are still being made in HyperCard 2.0, so I'm posting
these bugs so that the beta-testers of 2.0 can be sure they're truly
gone.  I haven't been privileged to be a beta-tester for 2.0, so I can't
see for myself.  If anyone has a comprehensive list of bugs in 1.2.5,
please send them to me.  (For example, what is the "card ten" bug?)

Two more things in 1.2.5 that I'd like to be missing in 2.0:

o  In HyperCard 1.2, the "topLeft" property coordinates are reported in
   the order Left, Top.  Similarly, the "bottomRight" property coordinates
   are reported in the order Right, Bottom.  So the more logical names for
   these properties would have been "leftTop" and "rightBottom".  Will
   this be changed in HyperCard 2.0?  (I know, it's probably too late,
   due to precedent, but this is the best opportunity.  You could
   leave the topLeft and bottomRight properties, but add the leftTop
   and rightBottom properties, which would report the same values.)

o  Make a new stack.  Create a button and set the script to:
      on mouseUp
        ask "Change name of stack to:"
	if it is not empty then
	  set name of this stack to it
	  put name of this stack -- bug here; HyperCard looks for the
	end if                   -- stack under its old name
      end mouseUp

OK, that's it -- I'm out of complaints!  One of the things I like about
this forum is that people from Apple read it -- it makes us feel like
we have some real input.

Signed, a hapless HyperCard hacker.
--
Conrad Halling
chh9@midway.uchicago.edu