Revolution Comment

[Timothy Miller]

Howdy,

I've been a hyperCard user since before some subscribers here were 
born. This is my maiden message on this forum. Let's see how many 
people I can irritate  ;-)

I got the bargain deal for Revolution or DreamCard or whatever it's 
called. I must say I'm grateful to have it.

I tried opening some of my stacks. In some ways, I was very 
impressed. In the blink of an eye Revolution told me what handlers 
could not be compiled, and where they were. In some cases, it told me 
what the problem might be, like maybe improper use of a reserved word.

On DoMenu... and Set the top of bg field "foo" to 999 seemed to be 
the main problems. These things shouldn't be hard to fix. I'll have 
to figure out how to write a proper script to set the top of bg field 
foo...

OTOH... My native hyperCard popUp buttons didn't display right. When 
I opened  up the hood, so to speak, I was amazed and overwhelmed by 
the huge number of ways I could configure the buttons. Same reaction 
when I looked at how to set field attributes. I'll figure out how to 
make them display right, by trial and error, probably. The 
documentation must be overwhelming, also.

Some people will love all the new features. Computer professionals, 
mostly, I'd guess. I'm kind of disappointed. Revolution is a Space 
Shuttle, and all I need is a hang glider. That's why HC was such a 
good thing for me in the first place. Why can't we have Revolution 
Lite, for morons like me? Native hyperCard 2.4 does everything I 
need, and much, much more, except for a Reports add-on. Some of the 
HC externals are handy, but I could get along without them. I gotta 
life, a family and a profession. Learning massively complex new 
applications is not my idea of a hobby!

This is one more incentive to stick with OS 9 or classic mode and 
hyperCard for another year. I wonder how long I can make this last?

Maybe someone will write an external that will turn Revolution into 
Revolution for Morons, by hiding and disabling all the perplexing new 
and unneeded features for people like me. Probably won't happen...

My thoughts, worth their weight in gold... (Lemme see... About how 
much do they weigh???)         ;-)


Have a nice weekend,


Tim Miller