The information may be a bit outdated now, but there used to be a page on
the LiveCode website about the differences between LiveCode (then
Revolution) and HyperCard. The page was taken down when the website was
redesigned after the kickstarter campaign, but you can still view a copy of
it at the internet archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20121025152800/http://www.runrev.com/developers/lessons-and-tutorials/moving-to-rev/hypercardThe page has a fairly detailed explanation of groups, along with may other
things.
Andrew
P.S. The Internet Archive is being slow for me at the moment, so you may
have to wait around 30 seconds for the page to load.
On 1 October 2016 at 15:53, Paul Kennan pkennan@[redacted].ie[HyperCard] <
HyperCard-Mailing-List> wrote:
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> Great to see that there are still some people lurking on the HyperCard
> List and willing to help out. Much thanks for the feedback.
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> I took a look at the "Group" concept and I'm having some trouble wrapping
> my brain around it. I haven't yet found a good explanation of how it
> works. Are there any comprehensive books about LiveCode?
>
> I got LiveCode 6.7 and it opens the HyperCard stacks fine.
>
> I am running HyperCard on an iMac G5 (I suppose not quite vintage...),
> LiveCode on a recent MacBook Air (wonderful device!).
>
> Jacque's conversion tutorial is excellent and a wonderful comprehensive
> resource.
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> There is a wonderful simple elegance about HyperCard and it is a shame it
> has been lost. LiveCard is much more complex and I guess it has to be,
> both because it has greater ambition and because it runs cross platform. I
> will continue to explore it and hopefully get a handle on it eventually.
>
> Paul
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> On 30 Sep 2016, at 17:27, Colin Holgate coiin@[redacted].net[HyperCard]
> wrote:
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> 1. With LiveCode you have Groups, and those can be set to act as
> Background. You could take everything in a HyperCard background and make it
> be a group, and you would have something like backgrounds.
>
> 2. The paid version allows you to set passwords. Also, due to Apple rules
> you would have to use one of the paid versions if you intend to submit apps
> to the App Store. You could completely develop the app with the free
> version, then only pay for the Indy or Business versions at the time you
> need to submit the app.
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> 3. LiveCode 5 and 6 seems to be able to open HyperCard stacks without
> crashing, but LiveCode 7 and 8 do crash. Maybe they dropped support for
> that?
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> On Sep 30, 2016, at 9:07 AM, Paul Kennan pkennan@[redacted].ie[HyperCard] <
> HyperCard-Mailing-List> wrote:
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> I've been using HyperCard for 20 years to run a business and it has been
> fantastic even if I have to keep a museum quality machine on the go in
> order to do it.
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> 3 questions:
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> 1. I took a quick look at LiveCode and can't quite find the alternative
> to background fields. So many of my stacks consist of hundreds of cards
> with info in the background fields with an indexing card at the front.
> This doesn't seem so easy in LiveCard. Am I missing something?
>
> 2. Is there a difference between LiveCode Community version and the fully
> paid up version?
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> 3. Does LiveCode still open HyperCard stacks? I tried with a really
> simple stack (virtually nothing in it) and LiveCode (latest Community
> version) crashed.
>
> Paul
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