From: jrspacer@aol.com (JRSpacer)
Newsgroups: biz.books.technical
Subject: Advanced HyperCard Scripting!
Date: 6 Apr 1995 00:18:51 -0400

   HyperSavvy is a stack literally BURSTING with scripting techniques,
tricks, and tips- and most all the scripts are "live"- that is, fully
functional in the stack, with their results easily visible by a button
press or PopUp menu choice.

   Many of the scripts in HyperSavvy have already proven themselves out in
the field, in other stacks, enjoying a minimum of a year's worth of
debugging and polishing before ever appearing in HyperSavvy; so it's
highly unlikely you'll encounter a problem with them.

   HyperSavvy is NOT PROTECTED, and is set to USERLEVEL 5. So you have
full access to everything (so long as you possess the full-blown HyperCard
application). This allows you to use HyperSavvy as a 'template' stack-
transform it directly into your own custom stacks- or borrow bits and
pieces instead, as preferred.

   Anyone may use HyperSavvy's scripts (AND the custom navigation palette)
in their own shareware and commercial stacks, with no more obligation than
plainly stating within those stacks the source of the code and palette.

   Major scripting techniques presented in HyperSavvy (there's lots of
minor ones not listed here) include the following:

   1. Central control over stack navigation that ties together the
cursor/arrow keys, Go menu commands, custom menu commands, keyboard menu
shortcuts, and an attractive custom navigation palette into a single
system. This allows you to change all stack navigation operations with
just the tweak of a few central script handlers.

   2. Your own "About [filename]..." under the Apple menu, and "Quit
[filename]" under the File menu, and a custom "[filename]" menu, easily
customized within MINUTES for your own stacks.

   3.  Comprehensive modifications of HyperCard menus on demand- menu AND
menu item deletions, disablings, enablings, breaks, and redirections of
commands- whatever you require for your own project.

   4. A fast and elegant PopUp menu (in pure HyperTalk yet!) which changes
'on-the-fly' to present different options for different cards.

   5. An exhaustive trap script for all HyperCard menu calls- simply
insert your own custom scripts for any menu item you desire. This gives
you absolute control of every menu command in a stack (and so is great
when you want to protect your stack from hackers with a few special tricks
of your own).

   6. Full custom menu and palette wrap, and transparent userLevel
changes, within multi-stack environments. This greatly reduces the chance
of script errors, while also making your own stacks behave much more
professionally under complex conditions. You (and your stack's users) will
be delighted.

   7. A wide range of ask and answer dialog boxes, from simple to complex.

   8. Three different styles of progress gauge dialogs, including the
standard bar, and new choices of page and circular styles, all equipped
with Abort buttons (pure HyperTalk here, too!).

   9. A versatile scrolling list dialog with click-to-choose and multiple
function buttons. 

   10. "Find..." and "Find Next" scripts complete with a full range of
contingency dialogs already built-in, ready and waiting to be pasted into
your own stack.

   11. Background processing for HyperCard, with examples providing time
and date readouts for users, and a trap script that'll tell you everytime
a user starts or stops typing into a field.

   12. Ways to keep tabs on the size of any script or text field in a
stack, and intercept and deal with HyperCard script errors in a way
invisible to end-users.

   Why spend months trying to gather up and comprehend all these
techniques separately, with little or no help, and then spend more months
attempting to make them all work together, when you can just download or
order HyperSavvy today?

   HyperSavvy was a FLUX EXTRA accompanying the Summer 94 issue of FLUX
magazine (as shipped to subscribers)- the best electronic magazine in the
world, and available only on the Mac.

   FLUX and its EXTRAs usually require HyperCard Player v2.1 or higher.
Back issues and some EXTRAs like HyperSavvy may be downloaded FREE from
America OnLine, as well as found on shareware CD ROMs from EDUCORP and
AMUG's BBS-in-a-Box, among others.

   If these other sources are not convenient for you, you may order
HyperSavvy directly, for $ 17.00 plus $ 5.00 for shipping and handling
(total $ 22.00), following the directions given below for payment and
mailing address.

   If you want the very latest and greatest issues of FLUX, plus
guaranteed delivery of all related FLUX EXTRAs (applications like
Pathfinder, books-on-disk like Vaporware and HyperSavvy, etc.), four issue
subscriptions are available for $ 49.50 (FLUX is published quarterly). A
sample issue (sans any EXTRAs) is $ 15.00. Make checks/money orders
payable to J.R. Mooneyham, 135 Lincoln Ave, Newport, TN  37821
   Have questions or comments? Send them to JRSpacer@aol.com. Thanks!


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