I made this stack so kids could write and illustrate their stories with HyperCard easier. "BOOK" is freeware but if you like it I would like to know. So send me a note or send me your story. "MI CAT" AND "MIND MAGIC" are a couple of my favorites so far. Below is step by step on how to use this stack for your own story.
1. MAKE A COPY OF THE STACK "BOOK". Name the new copy the name of your story.
2. Double click on the new copy. You now have some blank lines on the left and a picture of a closed book on the right. On the blank lines type in general information about your story and yourself ect.. . On the closed book type the title of your story.
3. Click on the bottom half of the closed book. You now have an open book with pages 1 and 2 showing. The page on the left is where you begin typing your story. The page on the right is for you to draw your picture. The tools for drawing are under TOOLS on your menu bar. At the bottom of the pages there are turned up corners. When you click on these corners you will either go to the next page or you will go to the previous page.
4. When you are finished with pages 1 and 2 click on the button "More Pages". You now have made pages 3 and 4 to continue your story. The "More Pages" button is now on your new card of pages and no longer on pages 1 and 2. There is no limit to the amount of pages you can make.
5. The button "More Pages" will only appear on the last page of your story.
6. Do not add buttons or fields to any pages until you have all the pages made you need. If you do they will be copied onto the next pages if you make more. The "More pages" button only clears the text field and any drawing when it copy /pastes the new pages.
6. When you have completed your story it's nice to lock the text in all the fields and delete the "More Pages" button that will be on the last card of pages. Although your story will look great even if you don't.
7. If you would like to go one step farther with your story and add some animated or dragable buttons and icons to it, get a copy of "How Can I Do That" another freeware stack I made. It can script buttons for you so they will animate. It has buttons that are already scripted to be dragable so you just copy them and paste them into your own stack. If you are going to add more to a stack you have worked very hard on, make a backup copy every so often. That way if things get messed up, you never have to start completely over.
