LiveCode-HyperCard XCMD's

[Richmond]

On 05/17/2012 10:04 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> I wonder then, when RunRev is going to shed the whole Backwards Compatibility ball and chain (at least in respects to Hypercard) and consider requested changes that cite that as the reason for not doing so?

"Backwards Compatibility" is, probably, although unspoken, a thing of 
the past, as converting a Hypercard stack to a Livecode
stack is, quite frankly, more of a bother than just rewriting the thing 
in Livecode.

As most Hypercard stacks were black-and-white and very small indeed by 
today's monitor standards, they have to have their whole
GUI stuff rewritten and jazzed up; so the only thing that is left is any 
functionality. Where HyperTalk coincides with the Livecode
language (I'm not quite sure what it is called at the moment) jolly 
good; but as Livecode is capable of so much more than Hypercard
the whole thing looks a bit silly.

The only things that, as far as I can see, that Livecode now has in 
common with Hypercard are:

The stack metaphor,

Object Oriented programming,

Objects having their own scripts and script editors (for sake of 
comparison think about Visual Basic 6),

A small subset of HC commands.

>
> Bob
>
>
> On May 17, 2012, at 11:52 AM, stephen barncard wrote:
>
>> <snip> Even back then the obsolescence was in the air.
>>
>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:44 AM, -=>JB<=- <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:
>>
>>> All definitely good points that would me someone question if they
>>> should ever consider trying to make any hypercard code work.
>>>
>>> -=>JB<=-
>
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