Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-18 Thread Richmond
On 18/09/14 19:03, Devin Asay wrote: Here it is again, with the actual link included. :-P On Sep 18, 2014, at 1:03 AM, Richmond wrote: Perhaps . . . if I can find the time, I'll make a merry little list of all the keyboard shortcuts. Here’s my list of LC keyboard shortcuts. Tell me if I’m

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-18 Thread Devin Asay
Here it is again, with the actual link included. :-P On Sep 18, 2014, at 1:03 AM, Richmond wrote: > Perhaps . . . if I can find the time, I'll make a merry little list of all > the keyboard shortcuts. Here’s my list of LC keyboard shortcuts. Tell me if I’m missing anything, and I’ll add it.

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-18 Thread Devin Asay
On Sep 18, 2014, at 1:03 AM, Richmond wrote: > Perhaps . . . if I can find the time, I'll make a merry little list of all > the keyboard shortcuts. Here’s my list of LC keyboard shortcuts. Tell me if I’m missing anything, and I’ll add it. Devin Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigh

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-18 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote > That's marvellous, and goes to prove how extensible the Livecode > interface is. Ideally, there should be many different interfaces, depending of the kind of work that we are doing in LiveCode... An interface designed for projects that require a lot of Editing and Fo

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-18 Thread Richmond
On 18/09/14 11:52, Jonathan Cooper wrote: I loved the simplicity of HyperCard's cmd-F "Find", so I created my own in LiveCode: on commandKeyDown whichKey switch whichKey case "e" global prevFindString ask "Find:" with prevFindString find it if

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-18 Thread Jonathan Cooper
I loved the simplicity of HyperCard's cmd-F "Find", so I created my own in LiveCode: on commandKeyDown whichKey switch whichKey case "e" global prevFindString ask "Find:" with prevFindString find it if the result <> "" then beep put it into pr

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-18 Thread Richmond
On 18/09/14 07:42, Alain Farmer wrote: No, n-o-t microsoft-office! No-o! ;-) HyperCard had LOTS of keyboard shortcuts. Recent-cards was a cool feature, but I didn't use it much. I never use it: I just thought, on reading 'HyperCard Basics' it might be fun to stir the pot. Although a Rece

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Alain Farmer
No, n-o-t microsoft-office! No-o! ;-) HyperCard had LOTS of keyboard shortcuts. Recent-cards was a cool feature, but I didn't use it much. It would be easy to recreate it with LiveCode. Only the thumbnails were missing in the MetaCard version (aka FreeGUI). OTOH i don't think there is much-inte

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Alain Farmer wrote > Is it time for an upgrade of FreeGUI to LiveCode ? ;-) Actually, I have show LiveCode to many people and their answer is: I will use LiveCode if it works and looks like the software that I already use... (I understand that they mean that LiveCode should have the interface and

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Alain Farmer
Is it time for an upgrade of FreeGUI to LiveCode ? ;-) On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 8:03 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Interesting enough, LiveCode had more power than all XTalk software created before... but there are just a few of us who actually knows how to use fully all this power.

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Interesting enough, LiveCode had more power than all XTalk software created before... but there are just a few of us who actually knows how to use fully all this power. Some years ago, I ask in this mail list: Where are the new Livecode learners? Why they do not participate more in this mail list

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Richard, thank you so much for that link to a wise, amusing and charming article. Yes, you are right. The charm of it was youth. Which we only realise when we look back on it as you did there. It is the experience some of us will have had - of returning home after a long absence to a place who

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: > Sorting Cards > > The Sort by Name command in the Utilities menu lets you arrange cards > alphabetically by either > first or last name. > -- > I wonder how one does that in Livecode? > -

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread dunbarx
Richmond. -- Both HC and LC allow sorting cards with a sortKey: sort cds by word 2 of the short name of this cd -- It is true that there is no "go" menu, and you have to script your own find. What has replaced it, with cmd-F, is the find and replace gadget. Much more flexible and powerful,