Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-04 Thread Colin Holgate via use-livecode
That looked hopeful, but requires Power Tools. I do have HyperCard installer discs somewhere… > On May 4, 2020, at 3:24 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Paul McClernan wrote: > > > That old HC stack that removes the HC engine leaving only a stack file > > is here: > > https:

Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-04 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Paul McClernan wrote: > That old HC stack that removes the HC engine leaving only a stack file > is here: > https://archive.org/details/hypercard_standalone-stripper-232 From the link: This stack 'deconverts' HyperCard standalone applications into stacks by removing the 'stock' standalone

Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-04 Thread Paul McClernan via use-livecode
There's also this XCMD and another tool somewhere that claimed they could convert protected HC stacks to back to normal stacks but I'm not sure how effective they were (if at all): https://archive.org/details/hypercard_unprotect-xcmd On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 5:11 PM Paul McClernan wrote: > That ol

Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-04 Thread Paul McClernan via use-livecode
That old HC stack that removes the HC engine leaving only a stack file is here: https://archive.org/details/hypercard_standalone-stripper-232 On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 7:06 PM Colin Holgate via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I fear that the HyperCard group in Yahoo may be los

Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-03 Thread Colin Holgate via use-livecode
Thanks for the suggestions. The ideas about resizing the card window is what I had already tried. The scroller window only allows the window to be made smaller, it won’t go bigger. Double clicking in the scroller makes the card window hide or show, it doesn’t do the expected make the window the

Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-03 Thread Craig Newman via use-livecode
Can you explicitly set the text of the card in an openCard handler? Craig Newman Sent from my iPhone > On May 2, 2020, at 7:06 PM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode > wrote: > > I fear that the HyperCard group in Yahoo may be lost. Please let me know if > that isn’t true. > > But between you

Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-02 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 5/2/20 9:09 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: What happens if you make a copy of the HC standalone file, delete the resources, and change the file's type fom 'APPL' to 'STAK'? Can you then open the remaining data fork in an older version of LC to bring it into the modern world?

Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-02 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/2/20 6:04 PM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode wrote: >> As it’s a standalone application I can’t easily get at the stack, >> but feel sure there was a way to hack the stack out of a standalone. > > There was, only I can't remember the details either. But I do remember >

Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-02 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 5/2/20 6:04 PM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode wrote: As it’s a standalone application I can’t easily get at the stack, but feel sure there was a way to hack the stack out of a standalone. There was, only I can't remember the details either. But I do remember that there was a fairly clear

Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-02 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
What happens if you make a copy of the HC standalone file, delete the resources, and change the file's type fom 'APPL' to 'STAK'? Can you then open the remaining data fork in an older version of LC to bring it into the modern world? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design an

Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-02 Thread Martin Koob via use-livecode
Hi I posted this but then it bounced back because the message was too large. Trying again posting as plain text. -- I looked this up in my Hypercard Script Language Guide If you could get at the stack the script to set the window full size would be set the rect of cd window to t

Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-02 Thread doc hawk via use-livecode
On May 2, 2020, at 4:46 PM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode wrote: > > That is the whole reference guide. I have physical copies of that! Was there > a particular part that might help with the ‘maximize’ card size problem? I was thinking the menu reference, but that didn’t survive pasting the

Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-02 Thread Colin Holgate via use-livecode
That is the whole reference guide. I have physical copies of that! Was there a particular part that might help with the ‘maximize’ card size problem? > On May 2, 2020, at 5:39 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode > wrote: > > > Colin called, >> >> But between you all you may remember something tha

Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-02 Thread doc hawk via use-livecode
Colin called, > > But between you all you may remember something that will help me. I have a > standalone HC application, and it opens with a window that shows that you are > only seeing part of the card window. The card window doesn’t resize, and I > can’t remember how to make it be bigger. H

Most obscure HC question

2020-05-02 Thread Colin Holgate via use-livecode
I fear that the HyperCard group in Yahoo may be lost. Please let me know if that isn’t true. But between you all you may remember something that will help me. I have a standalone HC application, and it opens with a window that shows that you are only seeing part of the card window. The card win