Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs!clarson From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: HyperCard 2.0 (press release) Message-ID: <2375@ux.acs.umn.edu> Date: 9 Oct 90 18:44:29 GMT References: <44996@apple.Apple.COM> <8583@ncar.ucar.edu> <1990Oct4.173732.16943@midway.uchicago.edu> <2346@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1023@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) Organization: Iron City, USA Lines: 44 In article <1023@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes: >In article <2346@ux.acs.umn.edu> clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) >writes: >> Does anyone remember the original Hypercard documentation? There are >_very_ >> few mentions of scripting and HyperTalk [<10, if I recall correctly] and >> virtually all of them say "Scripting is not covered in this manual. Go >to >> your favorite bookseller and inquire about HyperTalk books." > >I don't remember the original HyperCard documentation. All the >information on scripting I ever needed was available via pretzel-? which >I discovered about forty-five seconds after starting HyperCard the first >time. > >Now THAT'S what I call easily accessible. And that was my point. Here on comp.sys.mac.hypercard there has been a constant stream of strident posts regarding the hidden nature of scripting in Hypercard 2.0, and about how Apple/Claris is committing a crime against nature by selling the full documentation separately. Well, full documentation has been extra $$ from day one. What has changed there? Hypercard 2.0 will ship with a limited set of stacks. I would presume that one of the stacks that will ship with 2.0 will be the help stack. Now, I may be being really naive; maybe Apple will issue a "novice" home stack that will have all mentions of scripting excised. However, I really don't think Apple will. Even if Apple does do that, most every Mac user or new buyer will find out from the Mac press or from current Mac users that Hypercard is a great scripting tool, as the users did when Hyper 1.x was released. If they want to take advantage of this scripting capability, they will have to buy a piece of supplementary documentation, just as they did when Hypercard 1.x came out. What has changed? Only this: Apple is now in the business of selling the supplementary documentation. chaz -- -- "I Am The Reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln", Insists Prince. -spew clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu AOL:Crowbone