MC book (was Random sounds...)

[Ray Horsley]

on 10/3/02 10:36 AM, Richard K. Herz at herz at ucsd.edu wrote:

> Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>>> Now all I need is a Metacard equivalent of Danny Goodman's bible "The
>>> Complete Hypercard Handbook"!
>>> 
>>> Is there any such tome in existence?
>> 
>> What would you like to see in such a book?
> 
> Richard, are you volunteering?  As far as I'm concerned, the MC help covers
> commands pretty well.  A big contribution would be a book that shows how
> complex things are put together (well, and a couple how to get started
> chapters too).
> 
> Here are a few chapters from my wish list:
> 
> How to communicate over the Internet (FTP, email, etc.)
> How to build an "Internet App"
> How to write externals
> (including documentation of the MC-external interface, and an example in
> Fortran as well as C)
> How to control and communicate with other applications and the OS from MC
> (using shell() to start other programs, getting directory lists, etc.)
> How to work with menus cross-platform
> How to print
> How to work with groups
> How to build real-time simulations
> ... and the list goes on
> 
> Rich Herz
> herz at ucsd.edu
> 
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Id love to have such a book, especially if it included step-by-step
tutorials.  I'm happy to pay for such a book if somebody wants to write it.


Ray Horsley
Dveloper, LinkIt! Software