Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!arthur!francis From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: HyperCard 2.0 (press release) Message-ID: <1990Oct4.173732.16943@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 4 Oct 90 17:37:32 GMT References: <44996@apple.Apple.COM> <8583@ncar.ucar.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 23 In article <8583@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) writes: >In article >emery@linus.mitre.org (David Emery) writes: >> >Chuq: >> >Not gone, hidden -- to protect someone who hasn't figured things out >> >yet won't get themselves in deep trouble. >> >> So now the "computer for the rest of us" has to protect us from >> ourselves? Ugh! Besides, does "hidden" still mean "accessable"? I >> don't understand the difference here. Either it's there or it's not. > >Have people forgotten that scripting has always been hidden in HyperCard? >It has always been the case that one had to go into the Home stack and >click on "Scripting" to make this feature accessible. Not really. Somebody who doesn't mind using the message box can turn it on from anywhere. In particular, it's easy enough to have it turned on by default in any (or every) stack. | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | A mathematician is a professional | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | schizophrenic.--Me. |