LC-apps for HC

[Ingar Roggen]

Richmond
You write «Why you should "pick on me" in regard to trying to convert stuff that must be, at the very least,
20 years out of date I don't know.» If I have bothered you you must excuse me. It surely wasn’t my intention. I must have mistaken your name for another.
Regards Ingar

> 15. jan. 2019 kl. 19.17 skrev Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>:
> 
> I did get 2 'odd' messages from you to me that seemed to be something quite different, so I popped them
> in my SPAM box.
> 
> Why you should "pick on me" in regard to trying to convert stuff that must be, at the very least,
> 20 years out of date I don't know.
> 
> On the very, very rare occasion I find a Hypercard stack that has a vaguely interesting title
> I have to do the following:
> 
> Unearth either my G4 Mac Mini or my G5 iMac and run HyperCard in "Classic" to look at the functionailty
> and code.
> 
> Rather than "fart around" converting stacks, my experience has been that it is better to copy code across into
> an LC stack running under RunRev 2, and then running that over to whatever computer I happen to be
> "in love with" at the moment.
> 
> BUT, frankly, HyperCard is almost half my computer-life away (I'm 56 and
> I started programming when I was 14 = 42) so when I really feel "fully retro"
> I fire up my BBC Micro 1981 or my BBC Master 1988 and get "down and dirty"
> with BBC BASIC, which, oddly enough, still has features LiveCode does not (Sound Export . . .).
> 
> Converting HyperCard stacks has been, in my experience, a waste of time:
> the overhead of having to debug the resultant thing is far more trouble than recreating the functionality in LiveCode.
> 
> Anyone wanting to teach a Neanderthal to drive a car should NOT apply to me.
> 
> Richmond.
> 
> On 15.01.19 16:46, Ingar Roggen wrote:
>> Dear all of you, - Richard, Richmond and the rest of the users of this list -
>> as you may have seen I have tried to get an idea (an offer!) of what it may cost - what one would have to pay - for an app or some other solution to the problem of making "HC easily portable to LC and thereby accessible «to the rest of us" again?». Not having got any answer I give it one more try.
>> Regards - Ingar
>> 
>> 
>>> 3. des. 2018 kl. 02.55 skrev Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>> 
>>> Ingar Roggen:
>>> 
>>>> ...why not elaborate it to the tool, the app needed to make HC easily
>>>> portable to LC and thereby accessible "to the rest of us" again?
>>>> Anybody takes the challenge?
>>> One could make HC's interface in LC. Anyone game?
>>> 
>>> I once thought about doing it myself...
>>> http://livecodejournal.com/features/the-true-power-of-hypercard.html
>>> 
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