Temporary picts

[Shari]

>if you are importing custom icons from HC,
>they will wind up in their own Stack BackGround.
>
>Go to Edit BackGrounds and click on "HC Icons" in
>the Stack Backgrounds window right below the Card
>Groups window.

No, haven't imported anything.  But I will be updating several 
programs soon that were built in HC, and I need to determine which 
ones I can port to MC without losing any of the goodies, and without 
spending a lot of time with the transition.  Apparently several of 
them will need to remain in HC, as MC cannot easily handle some of 
the things HC does with graphics and sounds.

My programs rely heavily on graphics and sounds.  In one sequence of 
Pork Barrel, I have several soundchannels playing at once, while 
other handlers are running.  And many of my programs play several 
sounds in succession while other handlers are running.  I did this 
with my current MC project, but it's klutzy and the sounds don't 
always play smoothly.  Required a lot of extra coding.  When I get a 
chance, I will upload the code in case anyone knows of a better way.

And of course the program which duplicates an image 50-100 times 
across the screen in an animation... nope, doesn't excite me to 
create 100 objects for one small animation sequence in a program 
that's already done and out there.  Better to leave the project in 
Hypercard and just perform the few minor updates it needs.  Was just 
kinda hoping to move some of them to cross platform and OSX and all 
of them to Metacard... *sigh*

Far as I can tell, very few of my HC programs will port easily and 
smoothly to MC.  The only one being a business program.  Very few 
sounds and graphics there :-)

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