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From: cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Andrew M. Cohill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: HC 2.0 is very nice
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Date: 10 Oct 90 12:57:21 GMT
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I just got Hypercard 2.0 yesterday, and all five levels of scripting are
right there in the Home stack.  The help stack is also included, and it
is a *major* improvement over the old one--better layout, better
graphics, more information, more examples.  Other goodies that have been
mentioned but I have now seen for real:  variable card size, which is
really nice (the address stack is now the size of a real rolodex card);
floating windoids, which I haven't figured out how to use;  a real font
menu on the menu bar;  you can now add your own stuff to the menu bar,
which will be nice for more application-like stacks.

Also included is a "power tools" stack; the HC development group learned
a lot from the shareware stuff, and a nice set of development tools are
included;  enough, I think, to give most people the basic stuff they
need to build stacks, but there is still plenty of room for add-ons from
third party/shareware people.

Hypercard was and still is a wonderful product; I think the Hypercard
developers have done a great job.  Writing good software is a long, slow
thoughtful process, and with all the really bad stuff written and sold
today, it is amazing that Apple has persevered with the free
distribution of Hypercard as long as they have.  I hope that Claris adds
real value to it, and I certainly won't mind buying a new and improved
product if more development tools and a good manual come with it.  

Thanks again to all the folks at Apple for a great product.