Re: HyperCard stacks needed

[John Bastin <jbastin@delphi.com>]

David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> writes:
 
>Regarding converting Macintosh stacks: it isn't a simple task, and
>usually requires a lot of work to clean up the stacks after
>conversion.  You are likely to run into problems with stacks that use
 
I've done some work with the HyperMover programs, and one of the big
problems I ran into was in converting Mac HyperCard stacks that used
extensive scripts. There are quite a few differences between the
script languages of the two programs, and you almost have to complete
a rewrite of all the scripts to make a converted stack work properly.
 
Another thing to think about is screen resolution; I have converted some
Mac stacks that had displays that wouldn't completely fit on the IIgs
screen. The vertical resolution is a particular problem; when you only
have 200 vertical bits, there is a lot of vertical display you can lose.
HyperMover tries to account for this difference when it converts the screens,
but you can wind up with non-scrolling text fields that aren't tall enough
to display all their contents on the IIgs screen, for instance.