HC converted stacks

André.Bisseret Andre.Bisseret at inria.fr
Mon Apr 9 09:40:30 EDT 2007


Bonjour Francis,
You might want to read the tutorial of HyperActive that is devoted to  
translating stack from HyperCard to Revolution.
I used it and saved time thank to this tutorial.
The address :
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/mctutorial/rrtutorialtoc.html

Best regards from Grenoble
André

Le 9 avr. 07 à 12:58, Francis Nugent Dixon a écrit :

> Hi from Paris,
>
> I will be without Classic on my new iMac G5, so I took the much  
> delayed plunge, and in one day, converted my many HC stacks to  
> Revolution (2.6.1 Build 152). Things seemed to work quite well,  
> although I will have to modify many of my scripts, as I leaned  
> heavily on external XCMDs and XFCNs (many thanks to Mr. Rinaldi et  
> alia). I will end up rebuilding them all entirely, simply because  
> Rev stacks can be so much more "jazzy" to look at. But, until then,  
> I want to clean up the scripts a little, so that the stacks execute  
> to some degree of efficiency.
>
> However, a few problems are bugging me and I don't know how or why  
> they occur. When I open a HC converted stack,  Examples :
>
> 1 - When I select a field or button with the pointer tool, the  
> "up", "down", "left" and "right" arrows on the keybord don't work  
> any more. I can't move my fields/buttons step by step.
>
> 2 - I get strange errors flagged, such as "Repeat: error in  
> statement" for a script command" "repeat forever", and "Handler:  
> error in statement" for a script command "go to card 1". I can find  
> NO errors in my scripts.
>
> Can anybody shed any light on either of these problems ? Are there  
> any important "Do's" and "Don'ts" for those converting stacks from  
> HC ?
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