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From: fischer@arisia.Xerox.COM (Ronald A. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,alt.hypertext
Subject: Re: "HyperCard IS a HyperText application"
Summary: resedit ain't embedded editor
Keywords: resedit embedded editors
Message-ID: <677@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 6 Apr 89 20:40:32 GMT
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ResEdit is extensible, but it isn't an embedded editor in that you
can't place one media into the body of another kind of media, ie.
graphics in text or a text field into graphics.  In hypercard you can
overlay media, but they're not attached to each other, only the
"ether" of the card.  Embedding media editors is to HyperCard as HFS
is to the old flat file system on the Mac.

Take a look at "Insets" in the Andrew editor from CMU or
"ImageObjects" in the TEdit editor from ENVOS for excellent examples
of this capability.

(ron)

Andrew (UNIX & X): distributed with X window system or call ITC at
Carnegie Mellon University 412-268-6700.

TEdit (Sun 3 & 4): Scot Reid at ENVOS Corp. 415-966-6237