Mac Hypercard to Windows Rev

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/3/04 6:20 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> Kirby,
> 
> Did you compact the HC stack on the Mac first before taking it over to
> Rev? I've heard that sometimes this helps. You shouldn't get a hard
> crash - at worst you should get error messages as certain handlers that
> ran in HC fail to run in Rev because of compatibility issues.

This is a good tip. I have had many stacks that crash Revolution and/or 
MetaCard because I forgot to compact them before trying to do a 
conversion. It's a good idea to compact at least twice in a row, and I 
usually do three (but probably the third one is just superstitious.) The 
first compaction cleans up different things than the second one if it is 
done immediately after the first. Don't do anything else in between the 
two compactions.

Also, I sometimes have problems with very large database stacks; say, 
those over one or two thousand cards or so. Even after compacting they 
don't always come over easily. The cure for that is to make a text 
export of the data in HyperCard (the Power Tools stack will do it for 
you,) delete all but one of the cards in the main database background, 
and then do the two "compact stack" commands. Then open the stack in 
Revolution and write (or steal from HyperCard) a re-import script to 
bring the data in from the text file.

> 
> HTH,
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
>>[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
>>Kirby Glad
>>Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 5:27 PM
>>To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>>Subject: Mac Hypercard to Windows Rev
>>
>>
>>I have Mac system 7 hypercard stacks I want to convert to 
>>Windows revolution.
>>
>>I copy the files from the mac to a windows formatted floppy.  
>>I copy from the floppy to a Windows NT (sp4) machine.  I run 
>>revolution from the Windows machine and attempt to OPEN the 
>>file.  This results in sparks and smoke shooting out of the 
>>back of the CPU.  OK, it is actually just a hard crash of my 
>>system, which requires a hardware reset, but it FEELS like 
>>sparks and smoke.
>>
>>Any clues?
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>Kirby

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