Temporary picts

[Ken Ray]

Shari,

MetaCard has good graphics handling, however it can be a pain to have to
redo a stack that was already done once.
Keep in mind that creating 100 graphics and MetaCard and manipulating them
is a lot faster than trying to do the same thing in HyperCard.
I understand why you may not want to change this over to MetaCard, however
you may find that later on it will be worthwhile to do so in order to gain
cross-platform support and more capabilities.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shari" <gogypsy at bellsouth.net>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: Temporary picts


> >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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