mitch@well.UUCP (Mitchell Waite) (12/15/87)
HYPERTALK: THE SCRIPTS - REV 1 Dec 11, 1987
This document describes the contents of HyperTalk: The Scripts
Title: The Waite Group's HyperTalk: The Scripts
Suggested List: $19.95
Author: Contributed scripts, edited by Mitchell Waite
Audience: Programmers, students, professionals, managers.
Level: Beginning to intermediate scriptors.
Length: 600 book pages
Description of HyperTalk: The Scripts
Our new book, "HyperTalk: The Scripts" will contain 101 useful, fun, and
instructional scripts that improve and extend the things that HyperTalk
can do while teaching scripting at the same time.
Each script will be presented in a standard format showing its function,
telling how it works, providing tips, extensions, modifications. The book
is divided into several categories, and each will have its own HyperStar
"featured" author. All the scripts will undergo rigorous testing, editing,
and review by The Waite Group to ensure they are of the highest quality.
The book will cover tips and traps, scripts for doing navigation, as well
as dozens of text-field, button, and menu-related scripts, and more. We
will present scripting in easy modules, building progressively as the
reader builds skills. Topics include:
o general scripting tips and traps o card navigation scripts
o text field & button scripts o tool scripts, menu scripts
o sound and digitizing scripts o graphics and animation
o game scripts o educational scripts
o file import and export scripts o xcmds and xfcns
o C and BASIC scripts o trick scripts
About The Waite Group
The Waite Group is a computer book developer located in the San Francisco
Bay Area. The Waite Group has produced over 70 computer titles over the
last 10 years. The Waite Group's notable titles include: C Primer Plus
(the most popular text for teaching the C programming language), Assembly
Language Primer for the IBM PC (120,000 copies in print), Supercharging C
with Assembly Language (by Harry Chesley - author of PackIt III and
resident Apple HyperTalk xcmd expert), and others. Our most recent book,
Microsoft C Programming for the IBM by Robert Lafore, is currently on the
Dalton's Best Seller List.
Contributors and More Details
There are about 15 categories in the book. Each category will average
about 50 manuscript pages, and contain around 5 to 10 scripts. If you are
interested in contributing your scripts to the book, please send for our
authors package which describes our terms and provides a more detailed
outline of the book.
Mitchell Waite
President, The Waite Group, 3220 Sacramento Street, Suite 2
San Francisco, CA 95115, Office phone: (415) 929-7088
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