Beachball of death

[Stephen Barncard]

Tim, as a veteran of trying to convert several old HC stacks, I can 
tell you that only the most simple Hypercard stacks will run right 
away without some amount of rewriting. Stuff that we had to kludge 
and use XCMDs for are now built-in, and you'll want to utilize all 
those new functions. And Revolution today is many times more 
powerful, with the usual trappings that come with more power.

I usually end up saving time by rewriting all but the most complex 
code. It's usually faster, smaller, and easier to debug.

At 11:24 AM -0700 6/12/05, Timothy Miller wrote:
>...
>If someone can explain how conventional handlers doing conventional 
>things can make Rev go insane, and what precautions to employ in the 
>future -- other than the obvious ones, please speak up. Being a 
>perpetual scripting novice, I wrote my crude HC scripts by trial and 
>error. They either worked or didn't or generated simple error 
>messages. I'm going to have to change my ways, I suppose.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tim