newton@mtund.ATT.COM (Newton Lee) (07/14/88)
Is it possible to write HyperCard scripts in HyperTalk that would run in the background under MultiFinder? i.e. Is multi-tasking within HyperCard possible under MultiFinder? Thanks, Newton Lee AT&T Advanced Workgroup Systems Lincroft, NJ, USA
newton@mtund.ATT.COM (Newton Lee) (07/19/88)
Is there a way I can make several HyperCard stacks running at the same time (background execution) under multi-finder? Newton Lee Advanced Workgroup Systems AT&T Bell Laboratories
dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) (07/22/88)
In article <991@mtund.ATT.COM> newton@mtund.ATT.COM (Newton Lee) writes: > >Is there a way I can make several HyperCard stacks running at the >same time (background execution) under multi-finder? > >Newton Lee >Advanced Workgroup Systems >AT&T Bell Laboratories There is good news and bad news on this topic. The bad news is that you cannot currently run two copies of HyperCard under MultiFinder due to a problem with the sound manager, so only one stack at a time. The good news is that at least we are aware of this problem and are working on various solutions to the single stack/no backgrounding problems. Look for them in the 2.0 release of HyperCard next year. Dan Allen HyperCard Engineer
wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) (07/24/88)
>> Is it possible to write HyperCard scripts in HyperTalk that would >> run in the background under MultiFinder? i.e. Is multi-tasking within >> HyperCard possible under MultiFinder? No. Hypercard is a foreground only application-- when switched to the background, Hypercard (should) sends a suspend message to the current card. After this message, the next message (should be) sent is a resume message. (We have had very little luck with the reliability of either message). It might be possible to run a backgrounding XCMD, although I would suspect that it could not use any SendCardMessage, EvalExpr, or other action that causes some sort of script action to happen. B.Bum