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-- card: 11854 from stack: in.0
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Date: Fri 18 Dec 87 23:47:37-PST
From: Sunil Maulik <MAULIK@BIONET-20.ARPA>
O.K. All you Hyper-hackers,
I have been following the BBoards for a while now, I've got Goodman's
book, I've even got the APDA HyperCard technical reference package
(which I barely understand - I'm NOT a seasoned Mac hacker) and I'm
STILL confused:
1. How do HyperTalk scripts (and HyperCard in general)
interface with MultiFinder? - Since HyperCard takes up the entire
screen (we've all seen how HC does away with the scaleable "window"
concept of the Mac) how can one switch back and forth between a
HyperTalk script (to e.g. launch a program) and MultiFinder ?
2. Since creating DA's is trivial with HyperTalk (has anyone seen
Goodman's desktop organizer, marketed by ActaVision, that seems to do
everything SideKick does and more ?!), will HyperCard (suitably
customized) BECOME the Finder ?
3. O.K. So I can launch a program using HyperTalk. But how do I
MONITOR that program ? Specifically, how do I check if it needs more
input, save its output, and, most importantly, "error-trap" any
unwanted garbage it may produce ?
4. What I REALLY want to do with HyperCard - I'd like to write a
HyperTalk program that runs a terminal emulator, logs on to a remote
mainframe by dialling up through a modem, run a few programs,
up- or down-load info (plain
text files) using (e.g.) Kermit, and then save that info into a stack.
I have heard DIALOG (the on-line retrieval service) demo'd exactly
such a utility at MacWorld in Boston. How was it done? Does it require
hacking around with XFND's, XCMD's and ResEdit ? Along these lines,
could I design my own customized interface to a BBoard service (such
as this one) where I could download selected messages and link them together?
So.. Is it possible? Am I still dreaming ? As I've said before, I'm
NOT a Mac programmer so I don't know how feasable such a project might
be only using HyperTalk. But I could see how, if a script
could run a terminal emulator in the background under MultiFinder, it
just might be possible...
[Moderator's note: CompuServe has a product called Navigator that does
exactly this. It is supposed to be fascinating. I'll let you know after
I get a copy and play with it...]
Any Hyper-hacker's
suggestions, code, XFND's/XCMD's, etc. welcome. Surely someone else
must have the same idea ?
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