Opening a Supercard file in Livecode?

Jerry Jensen jhj at jhj.com
Sun Jan 22 17:16:33 EST 2012


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On Jan 22, 2012, at 1:52 PM, stephen barncard wrote:

> Still, was it smart enough to figure out 'binary' features of Livecode that
> give speed and performance such as "repeat for each", etc.  and
> multi-dimensional Arrays and the UI features such as the datagrid ?
> 
> The 'translation'  could end up being a convoluted mess, hard to
> debug/understand. And there is so much more to Livecode now than what was
> available in Metacard.
> 
> I think most here would agree for anything but the most basic stacks that
> it's still better to do a translation by hand.
> 
> It could always be done, but is it worth the time?
> 
> On 22 January 2012 13:41, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
>> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Bob,
>> 
>> There used to be a SuperCard-to-MetaCard converter.
>> 
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>> Op 22-jan-2012, om 22:20 heeft Bob Earp het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>> 
>> Far be it for me to question your wisdom here Jacque, but are you sure
>>> this is true for Rev (not LC) ?
>>> 
>>> I went from HC to SC to ToolBook and then Rev, and at the time of looking
>>> at Rev, I can remember one of the enticements for moving was the ability to
>>> import HC & SC into Rev.  I knew a bunch of guys at Allegiant back then,
>>> and thought that the SC format was not that different from HC, and very
>>> similar to MetaCard.
>>> 
>>> I also seem to remember somebody writing a translator from TB to Rev,
>>> which basically dumped a text file description of every object with their
>>> scripts, and then built a stack from that in Rev. The only problem was that
>>> Rev did things so much better in some areas, most of the time it was more
>>> beneficial to  rebuild the TB project into a new Rev stack, and only use
>>> the valuable stuff like media.
>>> 
>>> Then again, maybe I'm just getting old and my memory is playing tricks ;-)
>>> 
>>> best, Bob...
>>> 
>> 
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