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From: cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Andrew M. Cohill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypercard Pro Wishlist
Message-ID: <1469@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 14:16:06 GMT
References: <17537@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
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In article <17537@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue) writes:
>No, of course there is no such product yet!  However, now that I've got your
>attention, isn't it about time that we in the HC user/developer 
>community started making our desires for new features known? If Claris
>runs true to form, there should be a 'Pro' version of HC out in 1-2
>years.  


I have a couple of items:

1)  Object-oriented drawing.  The perfect example for a use of this
feature is to provide users with a map of the stack.  In any kind of
stack that grows and develops new links and nodes, keeping the map up to
date with bitmap graphics is excruciating work.  All I want is basic
geometric shapes and the ability to connect them with rubber band lines
(i.e. if I move the object, the line stays connected to it).  Actually,
if you could just come up with a line object that you could connect to
fields and buttons, the geometric object would hardly be necessary.

2) Teach the report generator to span pages.  Right now, if you have a
field attached to a 'report field' in a report, if the text in the field
exceeds the space allotted to it, it just gets cut off, no questions
asked.  This makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to design
reports to print cards with scrolling fields of text, unless you can
guarantee that you will never have more text in the field than will fit
on a single page.


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|          ...we have to look for routes of power our teachers never       
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|Andy Cohill        cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu            VPI&SU