Rev to SuperCard

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Preston,

I ported a Revolution project to SuperCard, a year ago. The 
original project was a HyperCard stack, which I ported to 
Revolution, first. By leaving most of the original HyperTalk 
scripts unchanged, I was able to port the project from Rev to SC 
rather quickly.

The approach was to create the interface in SuperCard from 
scratch. Next, I copied all scripts from the Revolution project 
to the SuperCard project. I tested the scripts and made a small 
number of minor changed to get them to work. I believe I left 
all scripts that didn't involve fields or buttons unchanged.

It was easy, because the original project had been a HyperCard 
stack. If your stack contains many Revolution-specific features, 
such as menu groups, tab buttons and combo boxes, including 
scripts handling events sent by these controls, it will be 
slightly more difficult to do the job, because you will have to 
rewrite the scripts.

Eventually, it appeared that I was unable to make an exact copy 
of the Revolution interface in SuperCard. The differences were 
minor and true Mac addicts may even prefer the SuperCard version.

Based on my experience, I'd say that creating the new project 
from scratch while copying scripts where possible, is the 
easiest and quickest way to do the conversion.

Best,

Mark


Preston Shea wrote:
> Has anyone experience with converting RunRev stacks created on WIN to SuperCard 4 on Mac? 

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