LC-apps for HC

[Bob Sneidar]

I'll jump in here. 

Porting/opening Hypercard stacks is a convenience. The primary issue is that Hypercard was optimized to index every text of every card in a stack to make finding information easier. New records? New cards. 

Livecode? Not so much. In fact, not at all. There will be performance issues. But at least your field and button layouts will be intact, and you scripting *should* work out of the box. 

At that point, your next task will be to refactor your app to switch to a database oriented app with single form layouts as opposed to multiple cards as records. Getting the information out of your cards and into a database, although not difficult, will have to be scripted. So far as I know, there is nothing that can "automagically" do that for you. 

Bob S


> On Nov 30, 2018, at 09:02 , Ingar Roggen via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello, André,
> I hope you still remember that we met in Las Vegas. I still use HyperCard and wonder if it has become easier to port HC-stacks to LiveCode? Do you know if there are any apps for that? And if not, would it be difficult to write them?
> Regards
> Ingar