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From: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Serial XCMDS slow (was: Looking for Hypercard Videodisk Driver)
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Date: 7 May 88 12:06:59 GMT
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In article <12609@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes:
>		Will we ever get HyperCard "user items"?
>		(I like dialog manager "user items", hc
>		 user items would be great too...'XOBJ'?)
>
>Juri Munkki
>jmunkki@santra.hut.fi
>jmunkki@fingate.bitnet

I love this idea. A user item is the correct metphor that the HyperCard
world has needed. That is the way to do it. I can even think of how it could
be implemented. Like an XCMD, except the data is all event related. HyperCard
would provide a handle to a storage space for the user item's data, and
would send messages in the menu/window/control definition style.

Apple, please do this. This is a great idea. I am sure that Bill's team
can whip this up before the 2.0 release.

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