sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) (09/17/87)
OK - I'm hooked. I picked up Hypercard yesterday about 9:30 a.m. By 6 p.m., I had a stack of my own in operation, with buttons going this way and that and sorts, etc., etc., etc. What an incredibly powerful tool! My only complaint is the documentation. The manual that comes with it seems less lucid than other documentation that Apple has produced. And I was terribly disappointed to see that the HyperTalk documentation isn't included. I printed out what was in the Help stack, which was enough to get me going, but who would like to guess how long it's going to take to get the other manual from APDA? Well, it's going to be hard to pull myself away from Hypercard and get back to "real work." Jan Harrington, sysop Scholastech Telecommunications ihnp4!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop
chuq@plaid.UUCP (09/17/87)
>My only complaint is the documentation. The manual that comes with it seems >less lucid than other documentation that Apple has produced. And I was >terribly disappointed to see that the HyperTalk documentation isn't included. >I printed out what was in the Help stack, which was enough to get me going, >but who would like to guess how long it's going to take to get the other >manual from APDA? There is a GOOD book out called "The Complete Hypercard Handbook" by Danny Goodman. About 700 pages, $29.95. ISBN is 0-553-34391-2, and it is from Bantam Computer Books. Computerware has them for $21 and change. it'll tell you more than you could ever wish to know about Hypercard, except for XCMD programming, and there is a supplemental document out from apple that deals with that (one of these minutes I ought to package that up and get it to comp.binaries.mac). chuq Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ We live and learn, but not the wiser grow -- John Pomfret (1667-1703)