Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!im4u!suhler
From: suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: HyperCard as a Graphic Front End
Message-ID: <2468@im4u.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 87 02:32:05 GMT
Reply-To: suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler)
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Organization: Univ of Texas Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept
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The question of what is HyperCard good for reminded me of a demo I
saw at a HyperCard expo that Apple sponsored here last month.  One
of the demos was a stack that was a front end for a commercial
dial-up database.  (I don't remember which one.)  The point was
to substitute clicking on buttons for entering command strings.

The main card, as I remember, looked like a library card catalog,
with each drawer representing one of the major subdivisions of the
database.  I suppose that this representation was recursive on the
levels in the hierarchy.

Has anyone else heard of any similar use of HyperCard as a front end?
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Paul Suhler        suhler@im4u.UTEXAS.EDU	512-474-9517/471-3903