David_Greg_Herlihy@cup.portal.com (01/14/91)
I'd like to know where I can order Dialoguer Professional from Result Software or suggestions about other xcmd's to create dialog boxes in hypercard. Also, is there a palette making stack out there? Thanks.
ralph@world.std.com (Ralph Lombreglia) (01/14/91)
In article <37993@cup.portal.com> David_Greg_Herlihy@cup.portal.com writes: >I'd like to know where I can order Dialoguer Professional from Result >Software or suggestions about other xcmd's to create dialog boxes in >hypercard. Also, is there a palette making stack out there? > >Thanks. As Kevin Calhoun recently pointed out to me, his own ModalDialog external (part of the well-known Dartmouth xcmd stack) allows you to call any modal dialog for which you have resources. The DLOG and DITL resources themselves can easily be designed with ResEdit, and this would all be free. Apple's own "Power Tools" stack contains a good Palette maker; the stack was shipped to users' groups authorized to distribute HC 2.0. If you don't have access to such a group, you can buy it from Claris in their $49 package. I believe the Boston Computer Society will supply HC 2.0 on disk for about $20, but it may not be 2.0v2; and I should add that there's been a lot of confusion (and some ill-feeling, I think) about this user-group distribution of HC 2; my current understanding is that if a particular group has paid for a license from Apple, it's OK for them to distribute it, at least for a limited period of time (like a few months). Hope I'm not propagating any falsehoods. Ralph Lombreglia Internet: ralph@world.std.com MCI Mail: rlombreglia Bix: rlombreglia
jk3t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan King) (01/15/91)
David_Greg_Herlihy@cup.portal.com writes: > I'd like to know where I can order Dialoguer Professional from Result > Software or suggestions about other xcmd's to create dialog boxes in > hypercard. No clue about Dialoguer Professional. (Except that software with the word "Professional" in it the title ususally costs more than you would expect...) I'm pretty sure that the Dartmouth XCMD stack has something like this. > Also, is there a palette making stack out there? PaletteMaker is a palette-making tool (surprise) that comes with the PowerTools stack of the 5-disk distribution of Hypercard 2.0. It works pretty well (and accidentally provides as much documentation of the palette resource as I've seen anywhere, yet). Where can you get the 5-disk distribution of HyperCard 2.0? From many users' groups including BMUG, or directly from Claris (their 800 number was recently posted here). jking
jstern@garnet.berkeley.edu (01/18/91)
Just wanted to comment that Dialoger, though it costs money, allows you to create dialogs and palettes that you can't with either Dartmouth or PaletteMaker. (As just one example, we've got a palette that neds to ahve variable text in a couple of places. Can't do that with PaletteMaker; can with Dialoger) My point is just that if you can't do what you want with the free stuff, Dialoger is definitely worth looking into. (The only problem is that they're not yet selling a version compatible with HC 2.0!) Judy Stern