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From: sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Have any Hypertext Systems been written in Smalltalk?
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Date: 28 Jan 89 21:26:29 GMT
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Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA
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In-reply-to: rburns%master@Sun.COM's message of 27 Jan 89 19:51:12 GMT


In article <87291@sun.uucp> rburns%master@Sun.COM (Randy Burns) writes:

> Have any hypertext systems been written in Smalltalk? It seems to
> me that this language has a lot of the features of Apple's Hypercard.
> Has anyone extended it so that the user can define buttions, cards and
> fields without knowing the Smalltalk language?

Hypertext is not the same thing as having buttons that run scripts (as
Hypercard does).

The Analyst (Xerox XSIS), written in Smalltalk, has a lot of
hypertext-like features.  They also make a product called Assistant (I
think) that adds even more.  You can use Analyst without knowing much
about Smalltalk.

Also, a recent issue of HOOPLA had an article on programming
Hypercard-like buttons in Smalltalk.  However, the "scripts" these
buttons run are really Smalltalk code, so you still need to know
Smalltalk to use them.


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