• Apple menu: Includes a word count function, which is actually the number of characters in your document, divided by 5. Selecing “Desk Accessories” will bring up a dialog box from which you can open any desk accessory you've installed. Compatible with Suitcase and Font/DA Juggler+. If you select a DA that adds a menu to the menu bar, you will have to activate HyperCard's menu bar to see it, by pressing command-space. Pressing command-space again will return you to HyperWrite's menu bar.
• File menu:
---New, Open, Save, and Save As... function much as you probably expect. If there is an unsaved document on the screen, you will be asked whether you want to save it. Once a document has been saved, all subsequent changes to that document are saved as you make them. Name them as you would any Macintosh file (note: HyperWrite may have trouble with very long names, so try to stay under 20 characters or so).
---“New & Get Address” opens a new document and transfers you to Apple's “Address” stack. Use the Address Button stack distributed with HyperWrite to automatically put a button in the Address stack that will return you to HyperWrite and place the date and name and address of the person you've selected into the new HyperWrite document. You will have to click after the word “Dear” to continue writing your letter. Notes for advanced users: You may want to customize that button (and this command) if you're using an address stack other than Apple's. Contact me if you need help. You may also want to customize the placement of the date, since the script assumes that you're using a 12 point font (Geneva 12, actually). This can be done simply by varying the number of spaces the script inserts before placing the date in the document.
---Delete will warn you, but be careful anyway!
---HyperWrite documents are internal to HyperWrite, and will not appear as icons in the Finder. To get a HyperWrite document to another application, you can save it as a text file with this menu's Export function, and you can also Import text files from other applications.
---Selecting Print will bring you to a screen of choices. More help on printing is available from that screen. ---Quitting HyperWrite will bring you to HyperCard's HOME, while Quitting HyperCard does just that.
• Edit menu: Standard Undo/Cut/Copy/Paste functions. “Find...” will find the FIRST occurence in your text of whatever letters you type into the box it provides. “Find Next” has not yet been implemented, and I’m open to suggestions. “Replace” is a preliminary version of that function, with a number of limitations. Specifically: 1) It will only FIND occurences of a single word (it cannot search for a phrase), although you may REPLACE the found text with a phrase. 2) It will not find a word if it is surrounded by some punctuation other than a space (i.e. it won’t find a word if it is directly followed by a period or a comma, unless you included the period or comma in your “Find” request). 3) In general, quotation marks will throw it off. Despite these limitations, I decided to include it, since it is still useful for many functions, and it may help someone give me an idea on how to improve it.
• Format menu: Just what it says: left/right justify, center, single/double space, plain/bold/italics. Less frequently used formats (outline, shadow, etc.) are available by selecting Other. All selections here, as well as in the Font and Size menus, apply to the entire document.
• Font menu: Only Geneva, Monaco, and Chicago are listed, since those are the only ones I knew everyone would have (they're required by the System). Other fonts you've installed are available by selecting Other.
• Size menu: No surprises here.
• Transfer menu: Open Application launches whatever program you choose. You will be returned to HyperWrite when you Quit that program. “Bring this to your word processor” will copy your document to the clipboard and launch MacWrite, so you can paste and do additional formatting there if you require it. It is very easy to change that script so that it takes you to Word, Write Now, or wherever you want. Just look at the script and replace the single occurence of the word “MacWrite” with the name of your word processor. If you're confused, contact me for help. The other functions in this menu are self explanatory.
OTHER FEATURES:
• Clicking on the date will put the date (without the day) on the clipboard. You can then click anywhere in your document and Paste it (using Paste in the Edit menu). Note: After clicking on the date, you MUST click where you want to continue editing before you can type, even if you decide not to insert the date at that point. The date wil remain on the clipboard until you Cut or Copy something else.
• Clicking on the 10, 50, or 100 tab buttons will insert that many spaces at your current location. HyperCard does not support the tab key for this function. Again, you can modify the scripts for whatever number of spaces you like.
• Whenever you start HyperWrite, it will automatically open the last document you worked on.
ANOMALIES TO BE AWARE OF:
• After some operations, the cursor may appear as a hand instead of an I-beam. This does not hinder operation of the program, but if it bothers you, just drag the mouse up to the top of the screen and back down, and the I-beam cursor will be restored.
• After some operations, your cursor will be placed at the beginning of the first line visible on the screen. If that's not where you want to be, just click wherever you want to edit.
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