Xref: utzoo alt.hypertext:661 comp.object:2144 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!think.com!linus!linus!sdl From: sdl@linus.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) Newsgroups: alt.hypertext,comp.object Subject: whatever happened to HyperClass? Message-ID: Date: 18 Nov 90 18:59:07 GMT Sender: usenet@linus.mitre.org Followup-To: alt.hypertext Organization: The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA Lines: 34 At an OOPSLA a couple of years ago, Apple Computer demoed a prototype called "HyperClass". HyperClass was an extension of HyperCard, in that it replaced the "background card" concept with "card classes" and inheritance. That is, if you defined a "card class" to have certain fields and buttons on it, you could then define a "card subclass" which inherited those fields and buttons (and could have new ones of its own defined as well). There was even a browser for card classes. This was written almost entirely in HyperTalk, as I recall. However, I never heard anything more about HyperClass since then. Does anyone know what happened to it? Is Apple still sitting on it, or releasing it as a product, or as PD, or what? Also, has anyone else ever implemented anything comparable in HyperCard, SuperCard, or whatever? Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,necntc,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,necntc,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"