Supercard 4.8 public beta

[Bob Sneidar]

Filemaker has a point and click programming interface. It just gets in the way. I spent more time perusing the dialog and sub-dialog boxes to try and figure out how to add 1 to a variable that contains 1, that I found myself saying, "Can't I just type a formula??"

I gave up on Filemaker.

Bob S


On Oct 5, 2016, at 10:22 , Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com<mailto:ambassador at fourthworld.com>> wrote:

Like Bill Appleton told me shortly after he left his point-and-click authoring tool CourseBuilder behind to make SuperCard, there's a limit on the complexity of systems that can be expressed clearly in any point-and-click UI, and ultimately code becomes the more readable option for any but the most trivial of programs.

After all, how many point-and-click tools used their point-and-click tool to build their IDE? :)

Today most of the point-and-click are gone, even the industry-leading Authorware, while scripting language have taken over much of the world to dominate applications development.

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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web