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Scripts in HyperCard have a 30,000 character limit. For small stacks, it's not usually a problem. When you're working with code intensive stacks, it can be an issue. Thankfully, there are work arounds.
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Scripts in HyperCard have a 30,000 character limit. For small stacks, it's not usually a problem. When you're working with code intensive stacks, it can be an issue. Thankfully, there are work arounds.
Thank you to my patrons!
You can help support creating content on this channel for as little as $1 per month on Patreon at patreon.com/EricsEdge.
Mastodon: https://bitbang.social/@ericsedge
Twitter: twitter.com/EricsEdge
Blog: pragmaticpizza.blogspot.com
Website: http://home.macintosh.garden/~ericsedge/
Reddit: reddit.com/user/SDGOL
Thank you to my patrons!
Extra Special Patrons: FrodoJedi
Special Patrons: khbsd_
Jason A Starbuck
Patrons: Ron's Computer Videos (first!)
Justin D. Morgan
Garth Beagle
Dave's Vintage Apple Tech
Tom Barber
Geek With Social Skills
Adam's Apples
Tink Time



![#MARCHintosh2022 - HyperCard Authoring and Programming: Module 01: Browsing & Typing
#MARCHintosh2022 - HyperCard Authoring and Programming: Module 01: Browsing & Typing
This video is part of a course on HyperCard Authoring and Programming.
The course is made up of five major topics:
Part 0: Course Syllabus
https://youtu.be/C_kO9Pb74b0
Part 1: Browsing/Typing
https://youtu.be/nU4DvvTiGrw
https://youtu.be/_AoonBzuf84
Upcoming videos:
Part 2: Authoring
Part 3: Programming
Part 4: Advanced Authoring
Part 5: Applications
Instrumental to this course is having a HyperCard environment up and running. It can be on a 68K Macintosh computer or an emulator.
My friends, Ms. Fox, the Macintosh Librarian and Ron, from Ron’s Computer Videos can help you with that.
Getting your BlueSCSI working on your classic Mac is WAY easier than you think!
https://youtu.be/szXAcwyee9g
[Labs] Emulate a Classic Macintosh Today! Basilisk II Tutorial!
https://youtu.be/QSWWZ4hkvVk
If you have any question, please dont hesitate to ask. Ill have fun putting this together and presenting the course. I hope you will have fun too!
Note: At 05:35 I mention a link to Hyper-Wordle which I cant do yet.
Here it is - https://archive.org/details/hypercard_hyper-wordle
Dont forget to enter my giveaway! Enter to win a Raspberry Pi Zero W!
The instructions and conditions can be found here - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tT25nfvp-aA
00:20 Browsing Basics
01:00 Your Tour of HyperCard
04:14 The Home Stack
07:12 User Preferences
08:50 File Path Preferences
10:40 Saving Stacks
12:27 Cards
13:52 Backgrounds
16:39 Fields
19:26 Buttons
23:15 The Message Box
24:59 The Go Menu
26:03 Recent
27:02 The Navigator Palette
28:19 The Scroll Window
29:31 Finding & Entering Information
30:27 Using the Browse Tool
31:32 Looking Through Cards
31:56 Finding Text
35:00 Find Chars
35:31 Find String
35:48 Find Word
36:47 Whats Next
37:11 Outro
37:20 Credits
37:35 Stealing some of Joes thunder #MARCHintosh2022 - HyperCard Authoring and Programming: Module 01: Browsing & Typing](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nU4DvvTiGrw/mqdefault.jpg)






