hmayor@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Heather Mayor) (06/30/90)
Does anyone know whether 'color' will be an integral part of Hypercard 2? HDM
gb2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (George J. Baxter) (07/02/90)
Yeah, Heather.. it's supposed to have color, resizable windows, and editor,
amoung other things. One other thing I hope they get is those *^^ special
effects working on large screen monitors too..
GJBcpv0@GTE.COM (Cameron Vaziri) (07/04/90)
In article <saXonS600UzxQ111ok@andrew.cmu.edu>, gb2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (George J. Baxter) writes: > Yeah, Heather.. it's supposed to have color, resizable windows, and editor, > amoung other things. One other thing I hope they get is those *^^ special > effects working on large screen monitors too.. > GJB According to what I've read, the only thing you can do in color in HyperCard2.0 is show previously created color images (saved as PICT resources) within a frame. I am not sure if you can attach a script to the color object to do something after it has been clicked upon. I believe this capability is roughly the same XCMD type implementation which is currently available. SuperCard and Plus more thoroughly support color at the cost of speed. In regard to special effects, I have no problem using special effects on a large screen monitor as long as I am in 1-bit black & white display mode. However, I heard that you don't have to change your display mode to get visual effects with HyperCard 2.0. Has anyone yet received the SuperCard 1.5 upgrade? Pete Vaziri cpv0@gte.com
gannholm@apple.com (Martin Gannholm) (07/04/90)
The color capabilities of HyperCard 2.0 are that you can display any PICT files in windows, floating or not. A message gets sent of where you clicked on the picture if you do this. You can also have color palettes that contain clickable regions. There is, however, no support in 2.0 for creating these things. Both of these features are implemented as XCMDs using the new external window interface, and a developer could easily do more sophisticated color things - expect to see some really hot color stuff from 3rd parties. Visual effects in 2.0 work in 1, 2, 4 or 8-bit mode and even on monitors that aren't the main (boot) screen. The restraints are <= 8-bit and the card window can't straddle screens. Martin Gannholm Apple Computer
an12280@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez) (07/11/90)
In article <9397@bunny.GTE.COM> cpv0@GTE.COM (Cameron Vaziri) writes: > According to what I've read, the only thing you can do in color in > HyperCard2.0 is show previously created color images (saved as > PICT resources) within a frame. I am not sure if you can attach > a script to the color object to do something after it has been > clicked upon. I believe this capability is roughly the > same XCMD type implementation which is currently available. SuperCard > and Plus more thoroughly support color at the cost of speed. > > In regard to special effects, I have no problem using special effects > on a large screen monitor as long as I am in 1-bit black & white > display mode. However, I heard that you don't have to change your > display mode to get visual effects with HyperCard 2.0. You are correct that the only color support is for showing a color image in a frame. If you click on it, it will return the coordinates of the click to some other routine. In essence, the DisplayPICT XCMD has been added to HyperTalk. Special effects *do* work now in 8-bit color, but if you're in 24-bit mode, you still lose the special effects. There are also a couple of new effects, but I can't remember what they are. David Gutierrez an12280@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu "Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard